This reminds me of a blog post by Hani Suleiman from 2008. Today, that post looks like a prophecy, first Tim Bray actually went to Google and now McNeally admits that "you gotta take care about your shareholders". A real pity that Hani stopped posting.

This kind of marketing strategy is not unique to Microsoft. Please compare the Polish and English website of the Medical University of Lublin - a city in south-eastern Poland. http://www.umlub.pl/ http://www.umlub.pl/index2.html