Something big happened on Thursday. Microsoft made Office available on their rival Apple’s iPad. That means just one thing: their tablet, the Surface, is a failure. (It sold 4m worldwide in 2013, while Apple sold 26m iPads in just the last quarter. ) Mircosoft’s new CEO says its part of their new “mobile-first, cloud-first” strategy. The Economist is more pithy. “If they can’t sell the devices, at least they can sell the services.”

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