Microsoft co-creator Bill Gates in an interview with the BBC's Hard Talk [excerpts below] took issue with notions that Microsoft was trailing in the mobile space. He "wouldn't say that" the Windows developer had been left behind and said mostly that competitors, implicitly Apple and Google, had mainly done "very good work" in that area. The former CEO argued that Microsoft, while it hadn't executed on its vision, had even been prescient in believing that software would define the phone.
