I agree with you here, but I don't think the "weak smart phone strategy" is necessarily by design. Honestly, I think they have a solid smart phone product, but

I agree with you here, but I don't think the "weak smart phone strategy" is necessarily by design. Honestly, I think they have a solid smart phone product, but were so late that they won't get the solid ecosystem of apps they need. My issue with this article is that it forgets about the ugly side of Microsoft: delaying the sale of innovative new things to protect old profit centers in the enterprise market. Does anyone really believe that Microsoft CAN'T make editing hosted documents in Sharepoint as seamless and smooth as Google Docs? I truly believe that they have chosen to neuter a lot of their collaborative, web app based software to keep their old trusy desktop software (Office) profit center alive and kicking. They benefit from this, in the short term, in two ways: If the latest version of Office has new features, they sell the upgrades and make bank. Because it's desktop, they can say "you need Windows 8 (or whatever is latest and greatest) to run it Mrs. CIO." So then they make the OS sale too.