According to Ballmer, “If there’s one thing I guess you would say I regret, I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when we were so focused on what we had to do around Windows that we weren’t able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone. That is the thing I regret the most. The time we missed is the time we were working on what became Vista and I wish we had resources slightly differently deployed. It would have been better for Windows and our success in other form factors.”
Back then smartphones weren’t exactly mainstream yet, but we can only imagine how the landscape would look today had Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform had become the market leader and the standard that smartphone manufacturers would look up to. What do you guys think? Did you like the Windows Mobile platform? Or do you prefer Windows Phone?
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