What sort of IT roles are you basing this opinion on? And are you a hiring manager?

I've been hiring developers for years and my experience is to the contrary. There are simply not enough skilled developers in most major metropolitan areas that I would ever weed someone out for not having a strong internet presence. Heck, that's why we have to use recruiters in the first place. I know some shops like to see a GitHub account or something like that but for enterprise developers this is not a reasonable prerequisite; the lion-share of their work cannot be legally shared.

This comment assumes that Microsoft is still trying to build revenue only through licensing sales. My gut is that Microsoft has finally internalized that they will have revenue both from "cloud" services and from licenses at the desktop (no, enterprise customers aren't switching to Osx/Android anytime in the near future).

My suspicion is that they will integrate Skype as the cloud PBX/SIP provider for all of it's Microsoft OCS (now lync?) and take revenue share from office PBX systems / the phone company. In that case, they'll be happy to take VOIP traffic from all platforms.

Despite owning an ipod, three generations of iphones, an iPad, and an Apple TV - I received most of this stuff as perks - I recently joined the "renting" music demographic so that I could stream music to my living room using the Napster app on my Logitech Revue.

After a few months I have zero regrets because for ~$10/month I have access to millions of songs on-demand. For a dedicated music fan, just the ability to fully preview albums is worth the $120/year in the number of bad purchases it has saved me.

On the mobile front, though, I have to note that the Napster audio quality is crap. Once there's a Rhapsody app for Google TV I'll likely switch.

For anyone reading this: yes, change jobs. You can never be a prophet in your hometown and the value of being new and an outsider is valuable, even when you're selling yourself

For the author, if you were getting paid $74k in 2010 to be an architect - be it software, hardware, or network - you were getting tremendously screwed.