Recently Paul wrote a post about how it is embarrassing for Microsoft to keep failing at mobile and they should give up. Personally I don’t think they should give up.
Currently Microsoft has nothing to lose when it comes to mobile. No market share means more flexibility to do whatever they want. In the same way Google uses profit from search to fund all their other projects, Microsoft should use their profits from Azure, Windows, and Office to fund their mobile experiments.
Mobile is like web search, it’ll be around forever. The same reasons Microsoft held on to Bing are why they should hold on to mobile. Hopefully with Windows on ARM Microsoft can differentiate themselves and offer a compelling mobile strategy.
We’ll see what the future holds. What do you think?
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#121464"><em>In reply to TheJoeFin:</em></a></blockquote><p>It's more like "not Continuum when undocked and Continuum when docked". Continuum isn't really about mobile at all, it's a tethered technology taking the place of the traditional PC tower, requiring the same peripherals, but so far, more limited capability.</p>