The real question: How to keep Microsoft on the transparency track

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I have concluded there is a new monopoly strategy afoot

and therefore, less transparency is likely over the next few years. I hope I am wrong, but you may have noticed the change in Bill Gates focus (he is still in charge) on owning the living room. This is a huge change in strategy for Microsoft that if taken to its logical conclusion will make Microsoft an Apple+games clone+all hardware partners(HP, Dell, etc.,)+something completely new in the broadcasting arena. This new business model will make the current OS monopoly pale in comparison to its power and size.

Microsoft in its traditional paranoid business model is afraid that the OS and traditional monopoly is going away (i.e., EU hexes and Google/Linux threats), and it sees itself as a manufacturer of commodities in its OS business.

The new strategy seems to be, move on to something else. And knowing Gates and Balmer as the leveraged business strategy kings, I think he sees solution to the problem of loss of OS (and intentional crippling of their OS via DRM) as an opportunity in disguise. And he sees this opportunity with the single statement `we will own the living room'. You may not be aware of a little publicized effort to get FCC approval to use the white space bandwidths in the unused television broadcasting spectrum. MS in partnership with a few other players is trying to develop a new high speed internet capability that can be broadcast over the airwaves. J

ust think about that a minute and realize that the transparency of MS is about to submerge until the new strategy is firmly in place, enough time so none of us will know what hit us until it is too late. All this shift in strategy will drive a significant effort toward confidentiality and proprietary efforts.

Posted by: WinnebagoBoy   Posted on: 03/28/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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