Over the past 10 or so years Microsoft has been a behemoth moving glacially on whatever inertia it had left They completely overhauled Office. They've built wh

Over the past 10 or so years Microsoft has been a behemoth moving glacially on whatever inertia it had left They completely overhauled Office. They've built wholesale online experiences, cloud services, and have purchased and entered new markets. They took the gaming market and owned it. They continued to make incredible progress with their development tools and runtimes/platforms. The only difference this time is that they're risking it all because they're so afraid of Apple. They are essentially betting both their gaming and desktop experiences to desperately try to claw back in the smartphone industries. It is an incredible gambit that I think will prove to be a profound failure, but I think it's incorrect to see that as progress, any more than a salaryman betting it all on Red.