Who are you to say that mobile will be the way of the future for MICROSOFT in particular? I may think differently about some things, but I maintain that using the Metro interface, and the Windows mobile division (as it had existed and currently exists) as the failure that it has proven itself out to be, as the new template for the company is a critical, massive failure.

Their desktop and games divisions were vastly more popular and capable than anything their mobile division has ever provably done. To you point: the XBOX division in particular has been a wild success and now, this year, they've had to undo all of their heretofore successful efforts to instead replace them with Microsoft's wildfire failure, the Metro interface and apps ecosystem. The implementation, to my experience to far, is far from desirable and I'm finding it tedious, shameful (especially the tiny cover-art) and uncomfortable. I'm finding most comments flying around the web seem to agree with that assessment, but I've not yet seen a more objective poll from diverse opinions.

How much longer do I need to wait to feel differently? Hasn't it already been well over a year since the metro crap came out on the phones? Why would I feel any more differently about a Microsoft push of Metro in 4 more years when everybody else is already out-qualifying them on every level from innovation to ecosystem to intuitiveness and so on?

I remain skeptical of Microsoft's future while Balmer is in charge. The same points could be raised for Nokia now, too, and the evidence is in their decreasing sales, popularity and market share. Even the old Microsoft-faithful are converting to other platforms.