For many Microsoft watchers, the company's cloud focus has set it on a course toward inevitable irrelevance. That's a profoundly misguided assessment.
Microsoft fans are painfully aware of the company's repeated failures and seeming illogical decisions in the consumer's space. Microsoft Zune, Groove, Windows Phone, Kinect, Kin and more were all canceled for reasons ranging from failure to catch on in the consumer space to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's admission of abandoning consumers to pursue "the next shiny thing".
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