At $400 billion, Apple is worth more than Greece

[Alby_da_Wolf]

^^

Windows CE/Mobile/Phone dropped from its leadership on smartphones like PlayStation did from consoles, except that PlayStation's leadership was profitable and far longer, while Windows' drop was even more dramatic and it lost money even when it was the market leader. And except that PlayStation is recovering some ground lost, Windows, well, *cough*... Most people just don't want Windows also in their phones, maybe MS should ask Xzibit to persuade them.

About Android: openness, freedom and absence of a Google monopoly are amongst its strong points to make phone producers love it.
Apple has no problem with closedness and monopoly, as it uses iOS only on its own HW, it doesn't need to persuade any other producer, just the end users.
But MS wants to sell a closed system with its monopoly on the ecosystem to 3rd parties when the latter can have a system without those drawbacks. Not easy in a market where it doesn't enjoy the power of legacy and monopoly.
About Office, it's still leader on PC, but a whole new, bigger world not using it is growing outside of Windows PC world, and the need of intercommunicability will dwarf its ex-proprietary formats, once one of its weapons, now an anchor tied around its neck, and make it become at best leader of a niche. The choice of opening OOXML, but making its formats definitions so convoluted to hamper competitors will instead just kill Office itself.