[popat]

agreed - all the above stuffs helps you to build new products but then you need customers to buy it and if they dont put money in your pocket because they want something that is cross platform and open source then these stuff won't sell or help you to survive. MS has to change the attitude and the path - just like they have to bow down to ODF couple of days a go they have to do the same with all their products.

[DenisM]

In other words, you are saying that increasingly pervasive connectivity adds a lot more emphasis on interoperability and the good old lock-in is not as convincing anymore. I'll buy that.

[ideas101]

flexibility and understanding the change is the source of progress and survival ... read "Microsoft Should Know Money Can’t Buy Love" at http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/microsoft-should-kn...