Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

  • kirklennon@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Microsoft already was trying to leverage the popularity of Windows to make Windows Phone more popular but it didn’t work. Apple, meanwhile, licensed Microsoft Exchange for iPhone and basically established Microsoft’s entire product strategy under Nadella: providing high-margin services on whatever device people actually want to use.

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      9 months ago

      Microsoft already was trying to leverage the popularity of Windows to make Windows Phone more popular but it didn’t work.

      good point, i had no idea