The only flaw in this plan is that it could relegate certain product lines as sunk costs, particularly those related to hardware. In recent years, largely as a result of the megalomania of what has possibly been the worst CEO in the history of technology companies, Steve Ballmer, the company began making not only tablets such as Surface, but smartphones such as Lumia that have bled vast amounts of money out of the company in return for tiny income and minimal market share. Microsoft even went so far as to try a Trojan Horse strategy with Nokia, a company that it is now in the process of dismantling. Could these colossal investments now simply be written off as stranded costs that the company will gradually rid itself of so as not to lose strategic focus?