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Who knew Wintel combination will become the curse for Microsoft. Microsoft paid heavy price including a complete OS flop, and losing mobile war; just because developers were not ready to leave Win32 API and step down to WinRT (buggy and half baked). Current emulation for 32-bit is slow and reviews are terrible. I wonder if Intel will ever be able to develop something revolutionary that runs x64 and energy efficient as ARM.

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WinRT may have been buggy but the mobile OSes were not so bad. They had mobile OS releases mirroring XP, 7, 8/8.1, and 10. The problem is Microsoft made no commitment to non-secureboot hardware on non-Intel devices and all of these devices were extremely locked down and not accessible to end users. Consequently, no one cared about them. You probably didn't even know they had a mobile OS patterned after Win7, right?

This turned around a little bit for the 8/8.1 and 10 mobile OS releases but not by much. A lot of stuff just wasn't possible on a Windows phone, even though the garden experience was exceptional.

>> You probably didn't even know they had a mobile OS patterned after Win7, right?

To the contrary, I stuck with Windows phone forever. I loved it.

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