Microsoft had the last laugh though. In the 2000s, Blackberry basically owned "enterprise cloud" for mobile communications; BBM and BES. Today that's been repla

Microsoft had the last laugh though. In the 2000s, Blackberry basically owned "enterprise cloud" for mobile communications; BBM and BES. Today that's been replaced by an Android or iPhone running Outlook and using Active Directory. That's really what Ballmer wanted, he didn't care about hardware or consumer applications like Apple did.