Re:Article has a flair for the dramatic (Score 1)

...Microsoft [are into] the Operating System, Office, games and internet markets (and just about everything else)

Glad you put 'just about everything else', 'cause that includes hardware.

In an apparently increasing open source software world, I'd get into hardware, too, and as I've said before, I think open source software companies should get into hardware, if only just in case M$ eventually corners the hardware market.