Bill Gates says 'you would be using Windows Mobile' if it weren't for an antitrust case

Nib Gates spoke virtually the downfall of Windows Mobile at The New York Times DealBook Conference. Gates shared how his ain distraction and an investigation by the US Justice Department hurt Microsoft's mobile efforts. He besides revealed that Microsoft almost launched Windows Mobile on a Motorola headset, simply missed past a few months.

Gates points towards a Us Justice Department antitrust investigation as a contributing factor to Windows Mobile losing to Android in the mobile market space, "If it hadn't been for the antitrust case... we were then close, I was just also distracted. I screwed that up because of the distraction." He also stated, "In that location'southward no doubt that the antitrust lawsuit was bad for Microsoft, and nosotros would have been more than focused on creating the phone operating system, and so instead of using Android today, you lot would exist using Windows Mobile."

The transition from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone had several issues and cleared the path for Android to contend for mobile market share. In the early days of Android, the success of certain devices helped push Android frontwards, but Gates says that things could have gone differently, "We were merely three months too tardily on a release Motorola would have used on a telephone, and so yes it'due south a winner takes all game."

It's incommunicable to say how different things would have been for Windows Mobile if certain Motorola devices ran it instead of Android. It'southward besides worth noting that this is likely a simplication of events and that many factors led to the failure of Windows Mobile. Gates did non specify which Motoraa phone almost ran Windows Mobile. The Verge points out that the Droid range of Android phones was a success around the same fourth dimension as Gates' story.

Gates also spoke about the "winner-accept-all" nature of the mobile telephone market place in June when he stated that ceding the mobile marketplace to Android was his "greatest mistake ever."

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