Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)’s Final Mistake? Intel Corporation (INTC), Dell Inc. (DELL)

Mr. Softy has become a greedy jockey. It’s buying and breeding racehorses.

Microsoft has every right to do exactly that, but then it can only blame itself when consumers and its own partners turn on the company.

Too many second chances
Surface Pro was already facing an uphill battle after analysts slashed their sales projections for the original Surface, which was more economically priced but ran on the feeble Windows RT platform. Now that reviewers aren’t exactly singing the device’s praises, it may be time for Microsoft to bow out of the tablet space before it’s too late.

The article Microsoft’s Final Mistake? originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Rick Aristotle Munarriz.

Longtime Fool contributor Rick Aristotle Munarriz has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Apple and Intel. The Motley Fool owns shares of Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.

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