Microsoft's New App Strategy: Turning Google Into A Dumb Pipe

14 Feb 2015 • fastcompany.com

Full-blown Office for iOS and Android? Sounds unlikely. Free major Windows upgrades for consumers? Not going to happen. Writing new apps designed exclusively for someone else’s operating system? Nope. Generally caring less about selling Windows licenses and more about selling cross-platform services? Not in Microsoft’s character.

And yet all of those things have happened.

Can’t always predict the future. Maybe Apple’s new 12” MacBook Air will only have a single USB connector after all. Stranger things have happened.