MSFT was always about owning the platform. All platforms. The writing was on the wall about mobile devices overtaking desktops/laptops - as it took time for th

MSFT was always about owning the platform. All platforms. The writing was on the wall about mobile devices overtaking desktops/laptops - as it took time for the telcoms to build out faster wireless networks. Windows CE was supposed to be where iOS and Android are in 2018. They blew that plain and simple. I'm no iPhone fan, its overpriced and overhyped as a computing device IMO. But, the watershed moment that created today'd mass computing - was the invention of the iPhone. It just obliterated Palm and the WinCE alternatives of the time.