[minimaximus]

They just unveiled cross-platform OneNote. They're about to unveil Office for iPad, and Azure works with any OS. Clearly they're moving in a different direction under Satya. The old, xenophobic MS seems to have morphed into a saner, more humble company that wants to play ball with all platforms.

[simonh]

If they just brought out cross platform anything, it must have been in the works at least a year before Satya was appointed. More likely, they had already decided on a new approach to cross platform support and wanted a fresh face to front the new strategy.

[scholia]

New approach was made public when Ballmer announced that Microsoft was now a "devices and services" company...