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Agreed. One doesn't simply wizard up Office for iPad in a couple of months (weeks?) or however long it was between SteveB's departure and the announcement. That said, almost all of them could have come out a year earlier or could have achieved a higher priority while under Ballmer's tenure. Perhaps Ballmer leaving gave a freer hand to those projects.

Either way, the people running Microsoft clearly want Nadella to succeed as an individual and they apparently want Microsoft to succeed as a company, given the business shift over the past few months.




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