MS just doesn't make any real sense nowadays. Sure its understandable to get into google and apple market share with office products, but releasing better versions than the windows product doesn't make any sense. With Ballmer at the helm it seems like his way was to make the Apple/google versions worse than the somewhat terrible windows version.(talking about phone here) With Satala, his way seems to be backwards...make a good ipod/google version and just ignore the windows version.....So I dunno...MS hasn't made a whole lot of sense lately.
This version was in development long before Satya (not Satala...*sighs*) moved into the big office.
BTW, do you know what really doesn't make sense? Holding into a finished product while waiting for another product to be finished, just so you can have it on your own platform first. Why throw money away by not having a finished product on the shelf, so to speak? It would be more of a waste having an artificial delay that is completely unnecessary from a business standpoint.
I seriously doubt this has much to do with Nadella. He's been at the helm, what, two whole months? No where near enough time to put any sort of policy change into effect in a company the size of MS. These sort of decisions were made prior to his appointment.
Indeed. Right now it's like the first several months while the POTUS settles in. Usually a lot of their time in the first few months is dedicated to getting things in line and a ton of what's happening in the public eye is the leftover business from the prior CEO.
The only logic I could see that would allow for that would be if Microsoft were wanting to be petty, and Google already has that beat covered with their *raspberry* type behavior when it comes to WP apps.
BTW just to put this out there. Microsoft is not ignoring Windows. They've had a version for Metro/Modern in development, but it wasn't ready for release at the same time as the version for iOS...and that would make sense since the Mac BU usually does things separately from the rest of the company on many fronts.