Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he messed up the company’s opportunity to develop Windows Mobile because he was distracted by its antitrust case brought by the Justice Department.

Had he not been distracted, Gates believes Windows Mobile would be what Android is today.

“There’s no doubt that the antitrust lawsuit was bad for Microsoft, and we would have been more focused on creating the phone operating system. And so instead of using Android today, you would be using Windows Mobile,” Gates said in an interview at The New York Times DealBook Conference.

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And he argues Microsoft just missed delivering Windows Mobile for an unknown Motorola smartphone, which could be the Moto Droid from 2009 – Motorola’s first Android phone and a key device that helped popularize Android in the US.

“We were so close,” said Gates. “I was just too distracted and I screwed that up because of the distraction. We were just three months too late with the release that Motorola would have used on a phone. So it’s a winner-takes-all game, that’s for sure, but now nobody here has even heard of Windows Mobile.”

While Microsoft’s antitrust battles did, in his view, stop it from developing Windows Mobile to its full potential, he argued that the legal wrangles weren’t necessarily good for consumers either.

But, in hindsight, Gates now sees a silver lining to Microsoft’s antitrust troubles and the fate of Windows Mobile. Gates says he wouldn’t have retired so early had it not been for the antitrust case and that gave him the opportunity to work on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Gates officially retired in June 2008. However he stepped down as CEO in 2000, one day after the Justice Department said it would pursue a breakup of Microsoft. The CEO role would go to Steve Ballmer, who inherited Gates’ Windows Mobile and Windows XP tablets.

In 2013, Ballmer would announce Microsoft’s plan to buy Nokia’s devices unit as part of an ultimately failed bid to get Windows Phone off the ground. By the time Microsoft officially acquired Nokia devices in February 2014, Ballmer had retired and was replaced by current CEO Satya Nadella. Soon after, Microsoft wrote off its Nokia devices business.

Next year Microsoft will launch its Android-based Surface Duo phone and is focusing on getting Office Mobile on to Android devices and driving Office 365 subscriptions.

Gates comments on antitrust come amid calls by some politicians, such as Elizabeth Warren, to break up big tech companies. Gates earlier this year said that breaking up tech companies won’t solve anti-competitive behavior by big tech.

However, previously lamenting Microsoft’s failure to produce what Android is today, he said software is a “winner-takes-all” market.

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Near miss

Story for the gods

Windows mobile would never have dominated even if it was installed in the Motorola phone.

Window rubbish DAT almost kill our nokia

I love windows

Windows mobile has been around even before Android OS yet it could not capture the mobile market.

That chair he is sitting on must be very classy

cassidy1996:
I love windows

I love doors

I used Windows OS cumulatively for two years and that phone's a wild beast.

But then, it's not for everyone... Not even for many people

Windows Xcuse

I smell a conspiracy somewhere....

I still like window phones though especially most of their pocket PC

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Microsoft, Nokia incorporated, Blackberry, Arsenal fc, Yahoo inc, these are companies that failed to innovate and give consumers new products at the appropriate time. They were satisfied with what they were offering customers even when it was average or mediocre. When they finally realised it, other companies like google, apple, amazon, samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Lg and others have taken over the market and their lives have never been the same since then.

oz4real83:
Microsoft, Nokia incorporated, Blackberry, Arsenal fc, Yahoo inc, these are companies that failed to innovate and give consumers new products at the appropriate time. They were satisfied with what they were offering customers even when it was average or mediocre. When they finally realised it, other companies like google, apple, amazon, samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Lg and others have taken over the market and their lives have never been the same since then.

they did not fail to innovate, they where moving perfectly one time and faced challenges few of em where able to overcome the challenge while the rest just gave up.

One of the reasons for Android OS success was that it's open to developers to experiment with from the word go. People were able to play around with it how they like, enhancing the popularity.
This was the cause of Symbian, Blackberry OS and Windows downfall. The rigidity of their OS made them less desirable.

Android is still the best ever os on mobile phones

I never liked windows OS then.
Dont know why