MicroHoo

ER pointed out this great (and funny) article on why Microsoft sometimes competes in the wrong areas:

“So think hard about the future internet OS: ubiquitous computing, with a computer not just on every desktop and in every home, or even every phone and every camera, but in everyday devices, clothing, shopping carts, cars, pens, toys, buildings, roads, the power grid, even human bodies--and yes, lots of server farms. An infrastructure of real-time data services across that "network of networks," with search (and search-based-advertising) only one of many such services. As David Stutz once wrote: Useful software written above the level of the single device will command high margins for a long time to come.”