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Ballmer: Had To Make Windows The Center Of Microsoft's Tablet Strategy

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Sad reading: "That's why the Xbox, which was meant to conquer the living room, never had a digital video recorder in it -- that function was reserved for Windows Media Center. That's why Microsoft scrapped a plan to move Office to the Web (called NetDocs) way back in 2000"

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A poster child for the Innovator's Dilemma of how traditional management excellence kills disruptive innovation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology

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