Opinion: Microsoft's brave new world: Samsung, Android, and third-party software?

Microsoft's mobile ambitions have flitted from being a foreground issue to a background issue and vice versa within the company over the past decade. Windows Mobile, pre-iPhone, was class-leading and enabled a whole swathe of businesses to work on mobile, sending and receiving email in a time when everyone else was chained to their desk.But, after the iPhone was released, that all changed. The industry that Microsoft led changed dramatically, pulling the rug from under their feet and leading to