Re:Its about time... (Score 1)

While it's good to see IBM reckon their arrogance, I don't think the following makes sense:

We don't think (the proprietary model) is viable anymore," Jollans said. "The world has changed irrevocably with the Internet, and Microsoft's single-platform approach won't work. You have to be able to connect to things.

It's just a set of trivial points, vague assumptions, and false logic - usual marketing:

• Thanks to IBM we're aware that IT world has changed with the Internet
• How can he say that proprietary model is not viable anymore now while at least a huge company in Redmond seems in pretty good health?
• Nothing prevents Microsoft to try to connect to things using .Net. I actually though that was all the whole stuff was about.

The only valid point is the single platform restriction. Still, I do not think is enough to make their business model un-viable, installed based is way big enough for them to continue making a lot of money.

Does anybody think Microsoft is loosing money with MS Office?