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Who said anything about desktop? Microsoft needs something for phones and tables and they don't want to pin their cart to Google's Android horse.
by whoopdedo 8y ago
Who said anything about desktop? Microsoft needs something for phones and tables and they don't want to pin their cart to Google's Android horse.
- imglorp 8y agoWhat, another mobile thrust? They gave up on that completely. All-in on cloud, unless something has changed?
- adventured 8y agoI don't think anything has changed and it definitely wouldn't make sense now. There is zero growth in mobile phones, in the US and globally overall. That isn't going to get better, it's already a stagnate, saturated market. Now would be about the worst time for Microsoft to decide to re-target that market. Azure can be a ~$30 billion sales business eventually, probably spitting off $6b or $7b in operating income. It's a dramatically better business than messing with smartphones again (other than building apps for Android & iOS). They should just keep focused on their booming cloud business.