Why Microsoft Will Lose the Mobile OS Wars
Microsoft is going to lose the battle to control mobile operating systems. It may even lose the chance to take any significant part. Such a statement isn’t anti-MS dogma nor does it have to do with any technical esoteric. It comes down to arithmetic.
It doesn’t matter whether you think that Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zetlin is right when he predicts that the open source OS will become ascendant. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Google or Apple booster. It also doesn’t matter whether you think, as my colleague Michael Hickins does, that browsers and HTML 5 will largely eliminate the importance of the OS. (By the way, I think his argument, though not an absolute lock on the future, is well considered.)
