Comment Re:Can anyone at MS write in English? (Score 1) 345
It's a boring sentence trapped in a boring, verbose memo
He's being intentionally vague - not naming products or companies.
If I had to guess, he's probably referring to the fact of how quickly both Linux and OSX matured on the Intel platform while Microsoft moved so slowly it might as well have been standing still.
In the mid-nineties Microsoft wanted to deliver big on the Internet - do you think they did?