In a revival tent-like speech Wednesday, Microsoft’s chief operations officer Kevin Turner urged the company’s partners to forget the past — an allusion to the failure of its smartphone business to gain meaningful share — but defended the decision to keep making handsets.

“It feels so good, ladies and gentlemen, not to be yearning for something we don’t have,” said Turner during a long keynote that opened the third day of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Orlando, Fla. “We have what we need. And if there’s something we need, it’s coming. That is a beautiful thing.”

In other words, don’t weep over the spilled milk of opportunities lost.

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