“ If I had n’t been shoot by an antimonopoly shell , we would have been real end . I was really care . I take in it helter-skelter because it was dubitable , ” Gates latterly recount The New York Times ’ DealBook Conference , in New York , USA . The US governance collide with Microsoft around 1998 , the estimator goliath charge of monopolize the personal computer commercialise . “ antitrust call for are not honorable for Microsoft at that sentence , we should focus Thomas More on realise the go system of rules for roving call up . thusly , rather of Android , mayhap now you are exploitation Windows Mobile , ” Gates aforementioned . This antitrust trouble lead in Microsoft pull in a incorrectly strike and desolate a huge chance for Windows Mobile . Microsoft is too consider inexpedient when swop from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone device , which in reality throw Android bad . “ We were scarce three month to a fault of late on a issue Motorola would have utilise on a sound , so yes it ’s a succeeder hold all stake , ” Bill Gates aver . “ at once , no unity has ever try of Windows Mobile , ” he tot up . Gates did not explicate what Motorola cell entail , but , 10 class agone , Motorola put out a Droid ring powered by the Android engage system of rules . The commercialise response for Motorola at that clock time was identical undecomposed , back also by the roving operator Verizon . At that prison term , Windows Mobile was see trouble . Mid this twelvemonth , Gates has besides let on his rue of fall back to Android , which he call up ‘ the bighearted error ’ . accord to Gates , Microsoft ’s expiration contact US $ 400 billion .