Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

I feel that Microsoft sees the writing on the wall when it comes to Windows. The world is going increasingly mobile, and people are doing more and more via their phones (iOS and Android) and ditching the desktop. Your average person isn't computer literate nearly to the degree of the average HN poster, and I think we sometimes forget this. The average person does not care about operating systems. They want something that works and is intuitive. Microsoft is pivoting to a services company for this reason. They have been unable to kill win32, their mobile aspirations have failed, and ARM is coming around the corner for desktop. Windows will not be killed by the competition. It will remain dominant in an ever-diminishing niche, just as the IBM mainframe gave way to PCs.

> their mobile aspirations have failed

Their mobile aspirations were a walled garden because they wanted in on one of the ecosystems that was good for them at the expense of developers and users. I'm convinced that Microsoft would have a large share of the mobile market today if they would have tried to create a product that was good for users and developers instead of a product that was good for Microsoft.

I can agree with that perspective. There is also the cultural element. In America at least, having a Windows Phone was about as uncool as you could get. Capability or price didn't matter, it'd get you socially snubbed. We see something similar playing out now with Android and iOS among under-25s in the U.S.