Ben Brooks:
If we go by a favorite saying of the tech web, that Office is far more important to Microsoft than Windows, would it not make sense then that 10 years from now Microsoft is just a really good “app” company?
I’ve been wondering about that for a while. I actually think Microsoft keeping it’s fingers in iOS, even though it might mean the eventual death of Windows, is a smart move. Microsoft is a software company first, and a platform company second. If they want to continue to be a software company, that occasionally means being platform agnostic.1
I still can’t say that I disagree with them trying to hang on to Windows tooth-and-nail. It would be ludicrous for them to give up this cash cow without a fight. ↩
