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Windows 9 will likely be the last chance for Microsoft to get on track with salvaging what it can of the desktop and laptop future, and making serious inroads into mobile. If it gets Windows 9 wrong, there little chance that Microsoft will return to its glory days.
With Windows 8 and now Windows 8.1, Microsoft tried - not entirely successfully - to make tablets part of a continuum that goes from number-crunching workstations and high-end gaming rigs through all-in-one touchscreen media systems and thin-and light notebooks down to slender touch tablets.
Windows 9 will likely be the last chance for Microsoft to get on track with salvaging what it can of the desktop and laptop future, and making serious inroads into mobile. If it gets Windows 9 wrong, there little chance that Microsoft will return to its glory days.
Even though development of Windows 9 is well under way, for better or worse Nadella will be judged by it. If it's a great operating system, he'll cement his power at Microsoft for years to come. But if it falters, he might not be able to survive long after it, given the dire straits the company would be in.




