> "Microsoft missed the arrival of the web." How did Microsoft miss the arrival of the web and have the dominant web browser for years? > "Microsoft also miss

> "Microsoft missed the arrival of the web." How did Microsoft miss the arrival of the web and have the dominant web browser for years? > "Microsoft also missed the mobile revolution and ended up with zero mobile operating system market share." That's kind of disrespectful to the competitors who duked it out during the pre-iPhone phase of the mobile revolution. Microsoft competed with and defeated Palm Computing, the market leader, and others in the marketplace to become the top dog in PDAs and smartphones around the release of Windows Mobile 5 and 6. They didn't "miss" anything. Apple, to their credit, managed to hit the right combination of timing and consumer appeal that they swept everyone away, Microsoft, Blackberry (remember them?), and what was left of Palm. The iPhone would probably have killed Palm even if they'd managed to fend of Microsoft.