Satya Nadella has been Microsoft's CEO only since February, but he has already made massive changes at the company including releasing an onslaught of new apps.
These apps demonstrate Nadella's vision to create all kinds of new "productivity software." Gone is the laser-like focus on Windows. Nadella is instead focused on cloud computing and creating Microsoft software that runs on any operating system and device.
But among all the new apps, from Office for iPad to Skype Translation, Nadella has a favorite, he told investors on Wednesday at the company's annual shareholder meeting.
It's an app called Delve.
"Delve is one of my favorite tools I use every day," Nadella said. "Delve helps people discover information in new ways by surfacing the full depth of the knowledge inside your organization that's in SharePoint or [Microsoft email product] Exchange."
Delve, previously codenamed "Oslo," was formally launched in September after years of work and months of teasers.
It's an interesting way to help people cope with information overload, searching your emails, meetings, contacts, social networks, and corporate documents stored in Office 365, then using "machine learning" artificial intelligence to show you the stuff you need to see. Delve is limited to searching only Office documents, but eventually if it really works well and it gets hooked up to other apps (Slack, Dropbox), it could be amazingly useful.
Here's a view of what a Delve search page looks like.
Delve is free to use for anyone who has an Office 365 subscription. That's the cloud version of Microsoft Office.
