Microsoft made phones in competition with for instance Nokia and Blackberry AFAIK generally called Microsoft Phone/devices because the “Windows” they used had very little to do with desktop Windows. Microsoft iterated through different mobile OSes Windows CE, Windows mobile, pocket PC etc. made for different types of mobile devices like digital assistants and phones, and common among them was that they all sucked very very badly, and they were generally quickly canceled.
Microsoft was so incompetent that when iPhone came out, Steve Blamer laughed about it not having a keyboard.
That symbolizes how stupidly out of touch Microsoft is as a developer of new technologies. They don’t understand the use case until it’s actually made popular by someone else.
Microsoft made phones in competition with for instance Nokia and Blackberry AFAIK generally called Microsoft Phone/devices because the “Windows” they used had very little to do with desktop Windows. Microsoft iterated through different mobile OSes Windows CE, Windows mobile, pocket PC etc. made for different types of mobile devices like digital assistants and phones, and common among them was that they all sucked very very badly, and they were generally quickly canceled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile
those phones/gadgets were very different from iPhone, and later Microsoft copied the way way superior iPhone concept for the Windows Phone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone
Microsoft was so incompetent that when iPhone came out, Steve Blamer laughed about it not having a keyboard.
That symbolizes how stupidly out of touch Microsoft is as a developer of new technologies. They don’t understand the use case until it’s actually made popular by someone else.