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jgreen10 on Sept 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft's Concept Videos From 2000: Why Didn't B...

Because they did. Windows-powered touch-screen Pocket PCs and Tablet PCs existed years before the iPod. Microsoft just didn't find mobile devices important enough and wasn't willing to re-invent Windows for it. Windows Mobile was pretty terrible to use.

pohl on Sept 12, 2013 [–]

...and wasn't willing to re-invent Windows for it.

And thereby, being unwilling to disrupt themselves, made themselves ripe for it.

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