Re: History repeating
> It seems evidently clear that Microsoft just don't understand their customers.
MS understand their customers perfectly. They just prefer to look after their own interests which don't coincide.
They should have saved the billions they spent on 8.1 and ploughed it into making WinPhone/WinTab really good. Mobile market share is their goal, after all. They should have done an equivalent of iLife/iTunes, teamed up with Amazon for media purchases, Nokia (or old-school GPS like Garmin) for maps and written a WinTab emulation system so you have the option of running tablet apps on a touchscreen W7 PC. It would have saved them a world of grief.
You can't own the ecosystem when you're third in the market. You have to go best of breed.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
