A high percentage of the virtual product launches I have attended since March 2020 have involved executives declaring that they’ve built the perfect product for the new era of work and play brought on by the pandemic. On Thursday, Microsoft’s presentation introducing Windows 11 was no different. So when I had a post-presentation chat with Panos Panay, the company’s chief product officer, the first question on my mind was whether the new version of Windows was indeed deeply informed by things the company had learned since COVID-19 struck, or had the company really formulated its plans for the upgrade before the world went into lockdown?
“There were things in the works, but what happens is you learn as you go, and you adapt to the environment that you’re in,” Panay told me. “And ultimately, what I would say is that [the pandemic’s impact on how people use tech products] was a huge influence. But it was more around thinking about the hybrid workspace moving forward. We…
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