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Absolute proof of what OriginalGriff is talking about is the developing great new technologies, then abandoning them almost immediately. OpenXML is an example. It bypassed Interop's slow speed and allowed detailed control over what the spreadsheet could become, but they never completed building a high level interface for it or updated it for interaction with newer technology.
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They are good (or others are very bad) at documentation, in my opinion.
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They have certainly improved a lot! Back t=in the DOS days, the documentation had a "brick wall" learning curve: if you didn't know what a command was called, you couldn't find out how to use it! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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try
{
MakeNewWindowsPhone();
}
catch(NotSellingException ex)
{
}
catch(NotCompatibleWithAnythingException ex)
{
}
catch(NobodyWantsException ex)
{
}
finally
{
GiveUp();
}
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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I think Microsoft should build a Surface phone to increase competition in the market.
Now that they've learned so much they could make this a phone with a _simple_ interface.
That could be their market.
Surface Phone Group As Its Own Entity
They could spin off a small piece of their company to work entirely independently with a small scrappy group who are bent on dominating mobile. A small company that cannot be touched by the larger Microsoft elephant.
The problem is that Microsoft thinks "if we can't sell this to 1 Billion people then we don't want to do it".  That's too bad.
They could instead get a niche market with a streamlined phone, sell it to 10 million (which would surely grow) and build a huge ecosystem based around windows.
But because they are a huge elephant they cannot even think about a smaller market. Oh well.
The problem is that they've killed so many products that I'm not sure anyone would trust them to stick with it.
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The survey so far tells "almost even between all choices" which is not very surprising looking at the given options.
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I
Don't
Give
A
Flying
Elephant
- why wasn't any choice WG![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ? or something like that available?
Really? Forcing selections doesn't give accurate surveys.
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I think, they are better off with supporting iOS and AND, bring their apps to those platforms (what they have done already to a good extend).
Windows server is a damned good piece of software and so is MSSQL, IIS, TFS and many other products from MS.
Visual Studio is an "ok" IDE, lightyears ahead to XCode, but it looses against intelliJ from my point of view.
I work parallel in .net and AND development and I am, plain and simple, way faster in Android Studio than I can be in Visual Studio. XCode loses by far in all aspects of a good IDE.
They still dominate desktop Market with Windows (though that might change in the next years).
Server part is a good and stable source of income and so is their development environment.
At the moment, I think, the market is settled with AND and iOS, no room for a third player. People just don't want the next empty App store. It's not the OS - it's the supply with Apps that makes a success of fail.
Xamarin is a big fail. They should drop it.
It's like the question "Gasoline or Diesel". Now E-cars try to come into the market, but in contrast to a third OS, they really have a chance to make it, as we KNOW, we don't have oil forever.
jsut my 2 cent
Cheers
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We only have two - one of which is massively proprietary (may be good, may not be - no idea as I will not buy into the Apple brand) and the other of which is crap.
I'd say that there's plenty of room for a third option.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: one of which is massively proprietary (may be good, may not be - no idea as I will not buy into the Apple brand) and the other of which is crap.
Thank you! Exactly what I was going to write.
PeejayAdams wrote: I'd say that there's plenty of room for a third option.
Yes, but MS needs to adopt some of the old, Bill Gates - style spirit to keep releasing until they succeed. They gave up on Windows Phone way too easy.
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If they want to get into phone market then they should try to do a phone OS... this try to make "one OS to rule them all" is just a PITA.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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