Microsoft had a path it could have taken. Write an android launcher that looks like Windows Phone Tiles. Get people to "convert their phones to Windows phones

Microsoft had a path it could have taken. Write an android launcher that looks like Windows Phone Tiles. Get people to "convert their phones to Windows phones" Release an Android App Store. Release .netCore as part of your app store, so to run these type of apps, they need your app store instead of normal android apps running on Dalvik/AndroidRuntime. Fork android, like Kindle, and release a copy with Skype for messaging, outlook for mail, the rest of office, the Microsoft Store. Now they have Windows Phones, that run natively on all android hardware, and have backwards compatibility with android apps. They completely skipped the embrace extend steps, and tried to jump right to extinguish.