I love it when somebody says no to Micro$oft. Maybe they will start to realize they can't have it all, but I doubt it. coastie65

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Maybe there's hope for Microsoft yet. Maybe they've begun to realize their "strategy" is no strategy at all. Maybe they'll now focus on their core OS and Office Apps business and fix those before they waste precious time, money and effort trying to morph into something else.

"[A]nd create real value for our respective stockholders and employees," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a statement distributed early Saturday evening."

How much value has Ballmer and the Microsoft Board destroyed by neglecting the OS and Office Apps business over the last several years? How much value did Vista and Office 07 Destroy? Revenues were down 24% for Microsoft while Apple's Desktop business soared 54%. That's a lot of value destruction for one man and his Board to accomplish in an area where they enjoyed a virtual monopoly. I wouldn't have imagined destroying that much value that quickly would have been possible if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. You have to work really hard to destroy that much value in business you have virtually now competition.