If anyone here subscribes to Stratechery I strongly recommend the interview sent out yesterday with Microsofts head of gaming. There's chat there about how gaming shifted internally in part due to how Nadella rethought gaming as it's own strategy and a key future component of Azure, rather than just a part of Windows strategy. He particularly highlights how gaming is a key differentiator vs the other top tech companies. Shows some seriously smart strategic thinking.
Main take away I had from his book "Hit Refresh", was that he made sure products don't hold other products back... Example: Office is free to go and make Office for Mac and grow Office numbers on iOS, Android... Without any burden to prefer Windows to drive Windows sales, Windows has to deliver numbers them self... Same goes for Windows on Azure or many other products that overlap...
