The foolishness of Microsoft significantly messing around with hardware started with the XBox - their most successful hardware line to date. I wrote a post abo

The foolishness of Microsoft significantly messing around with hardware started with the XBox - their most successful hardware line to date. I wrote a post about it a month ago: http://pdobson.com/post/16681986243/microsoft-should-own-the-living-room-how-google-can http://pdobson.com/post/16681986243/microsoft-should-own-the... Their primary mistake in all of their hardware decisions has been making hardware at all. They will always be a software company that made billions putting their software on other people's hardware. They should have been trying to put XBox Live on the PS2, they should have been trying to put Office on the iPhone, they should have been trying to get Visual Studio working in Linux. There should be no XBox, there should be no Windows Phone, and LAMP developers should be using Visual Studio instead of vim. Instead they decided if a piece of hardware wasn't running Windows, they had to build their own hardware and compete in a crowded marketplace instead of using their dominance to own said markets.