I almost feel bad for Microsoft.  I think they were far ahead of their time in many ways, and ended up getting in trouble for it.<p>They had some pretty cool tablets, but unfortunately the hardware &#x2F; internet infrastructure wasn&#x27;t really there to support it.  They were the first (major at least) to build an OS underpinned by a browser.  They were early to the game of running a real OS on a phone.<p>Unfortunately they weren&#x27;t really able to take advantage of those.  They seem slow to get into the tablet game the 2nd time around, and even now they&#x27;re still playing catch-up (although I&#x27;ve heard the Surface things are pretty good).  Their phones are consistently underachieving for whatever reason.  They&#x27;re still struggling to find the right model for Windows ever since XP&#x2F;7 (I think they&#x27;ve finally gotten on board with the Apple model of the OS is freely updatable, but I&#x27;m not 100% sure of that).<p>They&#x27;ve done some great work, but man, they can&#x27;t seem to get out of their own way sometimes.