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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wasted no time putting the October 7, 2026 announcements in perspective. “ I got up this morning,” he began, “and I was thinking about what these launch events mean to all of us, right? They obviously mean a lot in the moment. They’re about a device. They’re about an operating system update, about an application -- whatever -- and what it all could do in the moment.”
Nadella continued, “But there are also trajectories, and that’s what I think is more interesting. It’s not often talked about at the moment, but those attending those events have it in their heads.”
He then made a remarkable comparison. “For me, that is what was happening in ‘91 is I could clearly see essentially what was going to be the X86 architecture and Win-32 and not for the PC but the server. That’s what got me excited. Back in that time, man, this is going to be the thing that’s going to change computing not just on the client but even on the server.”
“And so, I think today’s event has the makings of something like that, right?”
