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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has revealed that his “greatest mistake ever” was failing to get the Windows-maker to do what it was born to do: make the world’s top “non-Apple” mobile operating system.
Microsoft crushed Apple in the early 1980s and 1990s, but its fortunes in the late 1990s and early 2000s took a wrong turn.
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And it seems Gates partially blames Microsoft’s antitrust problems over its handling of Windows in the 1990s for allowing Google to pounce on mobile, capitalizing on similar antitrust issues to the ones Google itself faces today.
“In the software world it’s very particular for platforms… These are winner-takes-all markets. So the greatest mistake ever is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is. That is, Android is the standard phone…
https://www.zdnet.com/article/bill-gates-my-biggest-mistake-not-making-android/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
