article_snippet.sent: The move marks a radical shift in strategy for the world's biggest software company, which still dominates the personal computer market but has failed to get any real traction on tablets and phones, partly because of a lack of apps.
article_snippet.sent: Various app stores merged into one platform, called the One Store.
article_snippet.sent: Return of the Start Menu, which had been removed from Windows 8.
article_snippet.sent: Users can create multiple desktops to keep things organised.
article_snippet.sent: other executives'd like to move away from the old notion of selling each new version of Windows as a separate product.
article_snippet.sent: Microsoft's had early success in selling Microsoft Office productivity software on a subscription basis, in which customers pay an annual fee to use programs like Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
article_snippet.sent: Nadella is presiding over a major overhaul of a company that once dominated the tech industry, in the days when PCs were king.
article_snippet.sent: Nadella has redesigned some of Microsoft's most popular programs for mobile devices and invested in new 'cloud-computing' services, in which businesses pay to use software that's housed in Microsoft's data centers.
article_snippet.sent: Microsoft still relies heavily on selling traditional software for PCs and corporate computer systems.
article_snippet.sent: But Microsoft latest quarterly earnings report, issued last week, offered some signs that the decline in that business is slowing, while Microsoft's cloud-computing business is growing rapidly.