I almost feel bad for Microsoft. I think they were far ahead of their time in many ways, and ended up getting in trouble for it. They had some pretty cool tab

I almost feel bad for Microsoft. I think they were far ahead of their time in many ways, and ended up getting in trouble for it. They had some pretty cool tablets, but unfortunately the hardware / internet infrastructure wasn't really there to support it. They were the first (major at least) to build an OS underpinned by a browser. They were early to the game of running a real OS on a phone. Unfortunately they weren't really able to take advantage of those. They seem slow to get into the tablet game the 2nd time around, and even now they're still playing catch-up (although I've heard the Surface things are pretty good). Their phones are consistently underachieving for whatever reason. They're still struggling to find the right model for Windows ever since XP/7 (I think they've finally gotten on board with the Apple model of the OS is freely updatable, but I'm not 100% sure of that). They've done some great work, but man, they can't seem to get out of their own way sometimes.