If Microsoft already get billions from Android and are still making losses on Windows phones that shows you how terrible they are doing. Microsoft seem to be heading to a cliff at breakneck speed right now with their business. It's held up by their core software but every part of their business is under attack by changing markets. They will forever be playing catch up now as they have never innovated anything.
I predict it wont be long before they are forced to sell xbox brand, windows OS will be free and windows phone/tablets are either sold or just stopped. Tough times ahead for this company no matter what their revenue/profits are right now
"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.
""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""
