Can Microsoft's core business adapt to the new economy?

Microsoft are migrating users to thin-client style systems, so _server_ licences become important, regardless of the actual client used.

On the InterWebThingy, they are pushing Windows Live, which is migrating users to Microsoft's own servers (rather than just server software), regardless of the actual client used.

Won't it be such a big surprise when Windows Live "works better with" (is less corrupted when used via) Internet Exploder?

Microsoft have been about control since Day One, not utility. The "My" in "My Computer" is William Henry Gates III, not the user. This is the basic reason for them corporately hating Open Source (flagship Linux): Open Source is about deliberately handing away control.

In essense, Microsoft are (have been, will always be) passive-aggressive. Read this & weep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive-aggressive_behavior

I hereby lay claim to the term 'techno bolemia' where someone just regurgitates opinion while offering nothing new. Once something triggers their reaction that its not enough to be for something as it is to be against something and feels that they must use their keyboard as a purgative.

hypocritical of me isnt it? To be against those who are for something by being against something else. the humor is not lost on me.

Ibeen 3 days now since I posted a comment in response to this article, it seems I've been edited out..... my response was in response to this

Quoting:But when you take a look around, you see that MS still has about 85% desktop market share.

and it went something like this.....

It used to be claimed that Microsoft had 95% of the Desktop market, if they now have 85%, that, to me looks like a drop in market share. But what would I know.

tracyanne: You seem to know more than all those pro-Microsoft "journalists" who keep insisting that Linux has been "kicked to the curb" on netbooks. You seem to know more than the Microsoft-centric bloggers who claim that Linux has 1% or less of the market share based on a web counter which only counts on sites where their customers have purchased the right to be counted. You seem to know more than all the tech pundits who want us to believe that virii and malware aren't common in Linux because "nobody uses" Linux, except, of course, for all that big iron and all those servers in corporate space and government space. Servers don't really count anyway, do they?

Thin clients, network computing, cloud computing, the next acronym for the same thing... Now that really has been rejected by the marketplace again and again. So...come up with a new name, a new marketing spin, and sell it all over again.