Bill Gates: Letting Google's Android Platform Become Dominant is My "Biggest Mistake"

The Android platform domination is on the way, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says letting Google's Android platform become dominant was his "biggest mistake" at the company. Bill Gates feels so regret

As we knew that, The Windows desktop operating system has been a core piece of Microsoft through much of its 44-year history, but Microsoft has failed to win a leadership position in mobile operating systems. Desktop operating system and Mobile operating system is very different, but now mobile operating system is very popular, getting more huge, Microsoft mobile operating system is way too far lags behind Alphabet's Google, and Apple. At today's Microsoft, Windows remains a contributor of revenue and profit, but Microsoft has moved on to focus more on cloud infrastructure and applications, essentially ceding the mobile platform business.

Bill Gates made the comments to David Rubinstein on Monday, speaking at a Economic Club of Washington luncheon:

"We're in the field of doing operating systems for personal computers. We knew the mobile phone would be very popular, and so we were doing what was called Windows Mobile. We missed being the dominant mobile operating system by a very tiny amount. We were distracted during our antitrust trial. We didn't assign the best people to do the work. So it's the biggest mistake I made in terms of something that was clearly within our skill set. We were clearly the company that should have achieved that, and we didn't. We allowed this Motorola design win, and therefore the software momentum to go to Android, and so it became the dominant non-Apple mobile phone operating system globally."

source : Economic club of washington, CNBC