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Originally Posted by conan50
Microsoft always seems a day late and dollar short. They are too cautious. They have the resources to do just about anything, but they are cautious and slow at letting go of the old paradigm. They have gotten better recently by finally realizing mobile is important and services rather than software is the new money model. We need more than just Apple & Google, that is one reason I'm glad Amazon is taking some risks in various areas.
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Well, don't be so quick to write MS off.
They are careful on the hardware front and don't get credit for everything they do, but home automation is an area they are already in. The only need to jump to the head of the pack is an Echo-like voice activated system. Of which they have two: Cortana and XBOX Kinect. Both top-rank.
With Cortana integrated in Win10 the door is open for custom Windows solutions working off even sub-$100 Wintabs. Home security integrators are going to make a killing.