In the old days, when competitors were afraid to even say Bill's name, Microsoft would have hedged their bets. Microsoft sold some crazy UNIX thing called Xeni

In the old days, when competitors were afraid to even say Bill's name, Microsoft would have hedged their bets. Microsoft sold some crazy UNIX thing called Xenix, DOS, and ported their software to OS/2 and Mac OS. Microsoft did not care who won, as long as they were positioned to get their foot in the door, make a huge profit, kill off all the competition, start displacing their upstream and downstream dependencies, and cement their position by extend-embrace-extinguish. They have one offering on the mobile, nothing to speak of in the tablet space, and very few apps / trojan horses for iOS / Android. It's like watching Ulysses stick to the Marquess of Queensberry rules.