minimalmac:

One of the benefits of a long car trip with my wife is the opportunity to have really great and insightful conversations with the smartest person I know. Yesterday, on the first leg of our trip, we spent some time discussing Microsoft’s many missed opportunities. The failure to take the iPhone…

A great take on the company’s biggest problem. I’m not sure I agree wholeheartedly with his (actually his wife’s) conclusion, though. Yes, iOS and Android showed that Office was not the necessity people had come to think it was—but Microsoft still could have sold a butt-load of copies had they pursued mobile versions and sold it as something better than the alternatives.