Microsofts problem is they never follow through. They launched it for consumers and did absolutely nothing with it. Didn’t make any games, or applications for consumers at all. If you build it they will come doesn’t work when you don’t have a vision.
Microsoft has seen itself as a platform company harkening back to the Ballmer days. That’s what his infamous “developers developers developers” coke fueled rant was all about. They make the bones of a platform and count on 3rd parties to build it out into something usable. If that never happens, the project is DoA. If that does happen as intended, they just buy the companies that do it best.
Microsofts problem is they never follow through. They launched it for consumers and did absolutely nothing with it. Didn’t make any games, or applications for consumers at all. If you build it they will come doesn’t work when you don’t have a vision.
they launched it for the medical field. then they put together a consumer presentation to show what else could be done. that was just a side hustle.
Microsoft has seen itself as a platform company harkening back to the Ballmer days. That’s what his infamous “developers developers developers” coke fueled rant was all about. They make the bones of a platform and count on 3rd parties to build it out into something usable. If that never happens, the project is DoA. If that does happen as intended, they just buy the companies that do it best.