Ozzy's working on some cloud computing initiative named after a European city, while Ballmer's either trying to hostilely take over Yahoo...or admitting he'd really rather build Macs(?!?!?!?). Meanwhile, Vista is now and has always been ass that won't work on Normal People's Systems, and will just confuse them w/its klutzy OSX-wannabe interface and Homeland Security-like "User Access Control" (and yes, I bought Wasta preinstalled on an alleged "Vista-Ready" PC- and backgraded to XP after Six Frustrating Months trying to get the Wow! to Just Work!) - and all the Karl Rove-like bullying and talking points from Ballmer's Bigots like JustThinking and SmartyPants above won't change those simple facts.
MSFT is a rudderless company with a joke of a flagship product, and an even BIGGER joke of a PR campaign to try and convince people that a turd is actually a truffle. What makes it even sadder is that MSFT has excellent products like the xBox and Silverlight which could do everything Ballmer's and Ozzy's dueling "strategic visions" (insert DILBERT insane giggling here) want and more - if they would just admit Vista and the Yahoo takeover were mistakes, the Zurich initiative is still a long ways off from implementation, and aim MSFT's admittedly impressive resources towards making the xBox 360 a one-stop-home-entertainment-and-basic-computing device. Once that's firmly in place, Ozzy can slipstream his fully-ready Cloud Computing setup into an already-extant soup-to-nuts solution - just like what Apple does, only better b/c it's also a rippin' gaming platform and home entertainment system!
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