You say "is" as though they haven't changed CEO's, undergone a complete organization rehaul, and oriented toward cloud services in the ensuing six years.
Not quite. Terry Myerson was the head of the Windows Phone division at the time of that parade and its subsequent failure in the market and Terry Myerson is now in charge of the entire Windows division, including desktop (i.e. Windows 10) and mobile devices.
That's because the Windows division is in "milk it and wind it down mode". Windows is no longer the favored child so they need some rube to keep the gravy train running as they pivot everyone else to the next big thing.
Windows won't go away but will just become less relevant. I doubt Microsoft even cares if Apple takes 80% marketshare in desktop/laptop PCs... as long as people keep buying Office licenses and using services running on Azure they'll make a ton of money and everyone wins.
The mobile race is over. Apple and Google won, we are way too far along in the hockey stick graph to leave any oxygen for further competitors. The only question left for anyone else is how much money they want to lose before they give up.
This is a very good point. These are the fruits of past coming to bear, it would be interesting to see where Microsoft ends up in a few years with Satya Nadella
