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It is sad that even Microsoft executives feel the same many of us long time Windows Mobile users do, yet nothing seems to change. We have been hearing for years and years that updates were restricted by carriers, that they were too hard and expensive. Yet, we are seeing both Apple and Google deliver regular updates to their devices, seemingly without significant issue. What is the real story?
How could a company that built itself on technology become so ignorant to the migration from desktop to mobile, and so greedy that it seemed to ignore the movement to continue racking profits on the desktop.
What's scary is how close Google is becoming to owning the cloud because they had the vision to see how computing was going to change, rather than trying to muscle every last cent out of the primary desktop search business. In many ways Microsoft's decisions mirror the same sort of short-sightedness that we've seen Wall Street severely pay for over the past 24 months; where every decision seems to be made based upon this quarters numbers, instead of what is best for the long term good of the company.
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