比爾蓋茲畢生大錯

●Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says letting Google’s Android platform become dominant was his “biggest mistake” at the company.微軟共同創辦人比爾蓋茲（6月24日在創投業者Village Global主辦的一場活動上）表示，他犯下的「最大錯誤」是讓Google（谷歌）的Android（安卓）手機作業系統占優勢。

●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.在今日的微軟，視窗仍為主要的收益和獲利因素，但微軟已將焦點轉往雲端基礎設備和應用，退出行動平台業務。我們知道智慧手機會很受歡迎，所以做了所謂的Windows Mobile；

●We missed being the dominant mobile operating system by a very tiny amount. We were distracted during our antitrust trial.我們以些微誤差，錯失獨占行動作業系統的機會，當時為反壟斷案件分心，

●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.”我們讓摩托羅拉的設計得勝，軟體動力轉向安卓，主導全球非蘋果手機作業系統。

●At the time mobile computing was taking off, Microsoft’s CEO was Steve Ballmer, not Gates.

比爾蓋茲自認做過最大的錯誤決策，就是放任Google推出Android 。