Bill Gates on missed opportunity: Microsoft didn’t end up doing the mobile OS well enough… I made mistakes

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said that missing out on the mobile operating system was a big regret for him. “Microsoft didn’t end up doing the phone operating system well enough. I made mistakes there that I regret,” Gates said in an exclusive interview with Anant Goenka, Executive Director, The Indian Express Group.

This is not the first time that Gates has spoken about the missed opportunity with regard to mobile operating systems. In a 2019 interview with Village Global, a venture capital firm, Gates had called it his ‘greatest mistake’ saying mobile software was something that Microsoft should have naturally won.