Comment Re:XBox saves the day (Score 1) 289
That's the short game strategy.
Long game, they're kinda headed in the same direction as Caldera/SCO. You remember them?
Big companies like IBM are 'hardening' their market position in certain areas, not acquiring. Oracle is doing similar - though acquiring assets, they're stripping them of their value to integrate it into their core product offering/identity products.
PCs have become commodity, yes, and the new boom market is in mobile/platform apps and data. MS is moving that way, but it seems they've not moved from their core competency of marketing - there's a LOT of competition in this market, and they're by no means good at it.