Harvey, I always preferred the Ballmerese "Embrace and Demolish". In a similar vein, somebody posted this piece on the other thread:
Microsoft: We're refining, not reorganizing eastsidejournal.com
I got no idea what eastsidejournal is, but it sure sounds like damn the torpedoes time.
Local industry observers say the goal of NGWS is to kill the proliferating Palm electronic organizer and its proprietary operating system by creating a universal Internet platform to end all platforms -- literally, as far as aspiring competitors go.
And I'm sure it will be an "open" Internet platform, in some Microsoftese definition of the word. Not only that, another old theme shows up as Bill allegedly wants to get out of the software sales business.
Connors, however, shed light on the plans during his March 22 talk when he said Microsoft wants to expand the number of Internet users by making it possible for all desktop and handheld devices to talk to each other with ease and simplicity.
In doing that, the company hopes to greatly expand its share of revenues by getting out of software sales, per se, and moving into a software rental or subscription type model.
Offhand, I'd guess there's a special Microsoftese definition of "all" implicit in the above language. Anyway, as Microsoft is famous everywhere for its "service", I'm sure the subscription model will work real good. No need to cross-reference any of this with the alleged settlement offer, of course. That is a different context entirely.
Cheers, Dan. |
