The Four Areas Of Focus For Microsoft Product Development

With the advent of Intelligent Cloud/Intelligent Edge computing, Microsoft is re-thinking its product development directions, now focusing them in four areas: the modern workplace, business applications, applications and infrastructure, and data and artificial intelligence.

On Monday, Microsoft debuted a number of new software packages that integrate several of the vendor's products to better address the Intelligent Cloud/Intelligent Edge model.

For the modern workplace category, the company debuted Microsoft 365, an integrated package of the vendor's Office 365 cloud productivity applications, Windows 10 and enterprise device management and security capabilities. For business applications, it unveiled integrations between Microsoft 365, the Dynamics 365 cloud ERP application set Microsoft launched last year, and the LinkedIn business social network Microsoft acquired in December.