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Microsoft's main failure for the past decade or so is that they have repeatedly enacted a flurry of short-term strategies in reaction to whichever direction the industry winds happened to blowing, and did so for just about every consumer tech industry.

Xbox to Playstation, Bing to Google, Zune to iPod. In the process they did very little leading along the way and hemorrhaged money from all of these businesses.

I still like and respect Microsoft as a company and think they can still produce great things, and I hope that the next decade sees them develop some leadership and return to innovation.



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