A Near Death Experience and the Birth of the Windows Phone

In a particularly gripping piece of tech writing, a story in this morning's New York Times Sunday Business section compares Microsoft's radical reboot of their mobile software to the true-life story of self-amputation in the movie 127 Hours. The mountain climber's near-death experience resonated with product managers who lived through the complete scrapping of the company's mobile OS: "Charlie Kindel, a longtime Microsoft manager who joined its mobile team in early 2009, compared the pain caused by starting over to the predicament of Aron Ralston, the hiker who amputated his own arm in 2003 after it was it pinned under a boulder in the Utah desert. 'This boulder comprised of Apple and Blackberry rolled on our arm,' said Mr. Kindel, who left Microsoft last summer. 'Microsoft sat there for three or four years struggling to get out.'?

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/01/08/a-near-death-experience-and-the-birth-of-the-windows-phone/

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