How many ways can Microsoft fail with mobile technology? There was Windows CE — a failure. Windows Mobile — a flop. And, more recently, Windows Phone — a fiasco.

Do we begin to see a pattern here? Failure, flop, fiasco — Microsoft has earned a big F.

Let’s take a look at the mobile marketplace, shall we? According to the Digital Analytics Program, a customized version of Google Analytics that collects information from visitors to 3,800 federal websites, Apple iOS is the most popular mobile operating system, with 16.8% of all visitors. It’s followed by Android, with 14.6% and then, lost somewhere down at the bottom at 2.3%, along with desktop Linux, Chromebooks and old OS/2 machines, is Windows Phone.

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