said by digitalfutur:It's not copy Apple, it's go where the market is going, which is away from desktops.
... except they tried to bring the desktop with them and failed. Apple's smart enough to know a different OS belongs for the right device, a mobile IOS on a mobile device and a desktop OS on a desktop computer.
From a UI perspective, Microsoft failed horribly with the desktop experience but did a decent job with the touch based experience.
or in other words, Microsoft tried to make a "jack of all trades, master of none."