随着ipad销量超过1亿台，关于Surface，每个人都能达成共识的一点是，微软在平板电脑和移动市场上有很多可以弥补的地方。不过，一位高管在接受《明镜》采访时表示，这并不完全是公司的错。据微软首席研究和战略官克雷格·蒙迪（Craig Mundie）称，该公司在桌面计算领域的巨大业务量使其“基本上成为黑客和网络犯罪分子的唯一目标”，而与之抗争的时间推迟了其进入移动领域的时间。

"My resp***e is that we had a music player before the iPod. We had a touch device before the iPad. And we were leading in the mobile phone space. So, it wasn't for a lack of vision or technological foresight that we lost our leadership position. The problem was that we just didn't give enough reinforcement to those products at the time that we were leading. Unfortunately, the company had some executional missteps, which occurred right at the time when Apple launched the iPhone. With that, we appeared to drop a generation behind.

During that time, Windows went through a difficult period where we had to shift a huge amount of our focus to security engineering. The criminal activity in cyberspace was growing dramatically ten years ago, and Microsoft was basically the only company that had enough volume for it to be a target."

虽然蒙迪正确地指出了在iPhone和Android兴起之前Windows Mobile的成功，但微软早期的触摸屏Windows版本从未在消费者中流行起来，该公司在推出第一款iPod大约五年后推出了Zune音乐播放器。

芒迪接着说，微软将“大量”的精力投入到安全工程上，也是导致WindowsVista发布出现一些复杂问题的原因。毫无疑问，该公司近年来遇到了一些动荡，但它希望从windows8和windowsphone8获得更平稳的运行。