“Last week, Microsoft announced its latest Net strategy. The
announcement of a new Microsoft strategy is a perennial ritual that
lets Microsoft flex its muscles and explain how it will remedy its
mistakes.”
“Watching Microsoft in the 1990s is what watching the Kremlin
used to be during the Cold War: an exercise in guessing at the
meaning of opaque official communiqués and watching
carefully for any changes in the seating plan of the
Politburo.”
“Rarely, however, has anyone tried to answer why
Microsoft’s Net strategy is so regularly disappointing.”