FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 5The firm has arguably struggled to align search
and the web with its traditional Office silos of
spreadsheets, presentations, and documents. Now,
executives say they’ve cracked the problem.
Microsoft hasn’t lost its idealistic view of the
Internet, dating back to Internet Explorer’s ‘beauty of
the web’ campaign. But today, the web provides more
opportunities and more challenges to solve, said Yusuf
Mehdi, corporate vice president in charge of Microsoft’s
Modern Life & Devices Group, in advance of Ignite.
He recounted the problems Microsoft was trying to
solve: how do you protect privacy and still maintainMicrosoft’s new
logo for Microsoft
Edge will appear
in your taskbar
sometime soonFEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 5Thefirmhasarguablystruggledtoalignsearch
andthe web with its traditional Office silos of
spreadsheets, presentations, and documents. Now,
executives say they’ve cracked the problem.
Microsoft hasn’t lost its idealistic view of the
Internet, dating back to Internet Explorer’s ‘beauty of
the web’ campaign. But today, the web provides more
opportunities and more challenges to solve, said Yusuf
Mehdi, corporate vice president in charge of Microsoft’s
Modern Life & Devices Group, in advance of Ignite.
He recounted the problems Microsoft was trying to
solve: how do you protect privacy and still maintain
Microsoft’s new
logo for Microsoft
Edge will appear
in your taskbar
sometime soon