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Microsoft: Whistling in the Dark

Being one of the many who have worked at both companies, you summed it up well. Microsoft has been unable to come-up with a Jobs like figure.

Apple's challenge will be to come-up with another one after Jobs. I am not sure that is easily done. The candidates Jobs has been giving us lack lustre. If we lose SJ, Apple may have a few years of fumes to run-on. It may be troubling times again at the apple corps.

FCC Takes On Apple and AT&T over Google Voice Rejection

@Don Bowey - your defense of AT&T's practice needs to be mediated by the fact that AT&T has had preferential use of *public* rights of way for over a century. That it has sought to destroy any competitive system that would, in our national interest, seek to lower costs and entry into communication systems. The nation has no inherent need to keep AT&T's communication system intact in whatever way AT&T would like to keep it. It's not their wires or airwaves despite all the lies from AT&T. Those wires and airwaves are granted by the people for a limited time so that their investment in the wires and airwaves can be recouped. This doesn't mean we grant these rights in perpetuity. We don't owe AT&T anything for the monopoly bestowed on it for the last century. It's time to really break-up the continued AT&T monopoly. And, the best way for government to limit the power of these significant non-state actors is to regulated them with open standards and open markets.

Is the Microsoft Empire Cracking?

After 5 years in the belly of the MSFT beast and a few years at Fruitzilla, I would have to concur. My recommendation on leaving MSFT was similar to your : monetize open source software or die. The collective look I received half-confirmed my diagnosis. The other half are still stuck looking in the rear-view mirror and relishing the days of unfettered competition. I must also say that operationally Apple is much better run (now).