I have to agree. The article started with stack ranking, but clearly there were much bigger issues looming. >“He didn’t like the user interface, because it di

I have to agree. The article started with stack ranking, but clearly there were much bigger issues looming. >“He didn’t like the user interface, because it didn’t look like Windows,” a programmer involved in the project recalls... “Windows was the god—everything had to work with Windows,” Stone tells Eichenwald. “Ideas about mobile computing with a user experience that was cleaner than with a P.C. were deemed unimportant by a few powerful people in that division, and they managed to kill the effort.” They could have been years ahead on phones, tablets, and e-readers. But instead they had a culture that tried to shoehorn a standard Windows experience into every device (I imagine for marketing reasons). They are only now getting over it a decade later, though it's probably more accurate to say they have the same philosophy but in reverse: shoehorn a mobile experience into the desktop in Windows 8. What difference does it make if you have the greatest engineers in the world but management is blocking them at every turn?