Microsoft has often been accused for not listening to consumer feedback and paying much more focus to its enterprise product lineup, especially since the Windows 8 operating system got to see daylight in October 2012.
The company, on the other hand, hasn’t talked too much about the way it looks into users’ opinions until it actually had to, as Windows
sales have dropped so much that Microsoft really had to reverse some of its decisions and tweak the operating system in order to address complaints.
Ever since June when Microsoft officially announced Windows 8.1 Preview at the BUILD developer conference in San Francisco, the Softies started talking about consumer feedback, saying that users’ requests are much more important these days. Hence the return of the Start button and the integration of an option to boot directly to
desktop and skip the Modern UI.
The truth, on the other hand, is that Microsoft remains mostly a company that’s based on the
enterprise business, and the company indirectly admitted it during a meeting with financial analysts on Thursday.
Let’s begin with a statement of outgoing
CEO Steve Ballmer who said that although Microsoft tries to remain a consumer-shaped company, it all comes down to the enterprise business.