Seems to me like a solid article -- it kind of explains a good deal, including microsoft's blindness to the idea of treating office as its platform (if Microsof

Seems to me like a solid article -- it kind of explains a good deal, including microsoft's blindness to the idea of treating office as its platform (if Microsoft has been aggressive about porting office to iOS and android it probably wouldn't care who won the platform wars -- instead it has simply made it abundantly clear to many people who considered office indispensable that they can dispense with it). In essence, sinofsky was tasked with sorting out office development and then with doing the same with windows. In the end he seems to have been a classic empire builder, and windows was the larger empire (within Microsoft).