Microsoft’s ambitions are huge and surprising, because they have to be | The Verge

Perhaps not the lead theme Microsoft had in mind for yesterday's Build 2016 keynote

"If they aren't already, mobile devices will soon be the most widely used and important portals through which we access the internet and do anything technological. Having until recently competed to own a share of that all-important platform battleground, Microsoft now has its gaze fixed firmly on the future. Today's presentation reiterated the demise of Windows Phone as the aspiring third mobile platform after Apple's iOS and Google's Android. That fight is over, Microsoft lost, and now the company is transitioning to being platform-agnostic."

Microsoft’s ambitions are huge and surprising, because they have to be | The Verge