Om Malik:
Microsoft’s legacy as a PC monopoly holder made it incapable of handling the fast changing, rapidly shifting post-mobile world. And now for the next year Microsoft will be distracted by integrating the two companies — all at a time when Samsung will be releasing a barrage of new phones, Google will be improving on Moto X and Android and, lest anyone forget, Apple will have a trick or two up its sleeve. Oh, by the way, there is that other Seattle-based company: Amazon has been quietly working on its own phones and has plans to take on the current smartphone establishment. And they don’t even care about making a profit — they just want marketshare.
That’s probably just how the next year will play out.
Microsoft just made their huge ship even harder to turn. Nokia’s flagship products will become the new Kin.
“And now for the next year Microsoft will be distracted by integrating the two companies”
I suspect they already have a jump on that. This “marriage” has been preceded by a period where the two companies have essentially been “shacking up”.
I’m tempted to get a feature phone and go back to my iPod Touch
Having Office on the next Windows phones will save Microsoft for sure!