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Execution matters. Microsoft was best-positioned to reap the widespread, mobile-enabled transformation of personal computing. They didn't, and today with the discontinuation of the Surface Duo, they have literally zero strategy in mobile.

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Worse, because of that bad decision they don't have any endpoints to sell AI and XBox services.

When Windows Phone was killed it had about 10% market share in Europe, it was slowly becoming the device that people that didn't like Android, and lacked the funds for an iPhone.

Turns out 10% is better than 0%, but they decided otherwise, and selling Microsoft Android was always hard to swallow.