Microsoft has always been just a mediocre software company led by salesmen. Their extraordinary success on the desktop depended too much on being in the right p

Microsoft has always been just a mediocre software company led by salesmen. Their extraordinary success on the desktop depended too much on being in the right place at the right time. That serendipity didn't happen for them with phones and likely won't happen again for anything else. They must compete with the other companies on merit, and they will do so with great mediocrity. Plus, they now are getting a taste of their own medicine in having to compete with companies that are entrenched, which may not always be better technically but have the momentum going for them.