>Which would be fine if he thought deeply enough to connect the dots of the entire organization, had a vision of the entire system as it is now and what it should be, and then sold and enforced that vision in the organization. Alas.
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Apple had its falilures as well (or was is just the link with apples falling that killed Newton ?)
but the spectacular list of misses in the win mobile area still is puzzling.
Others had no trouble developing Office-lookalikes downto Symbian -
and they were not able to at least get something better in their own mobile system ?