If you watched Charlie Rose last night,
…you heard the common assumption that
Microsoft is lagging because it spends too much time protecting
Office and Windows. I say that's myopic. Microsoft treats developers like royalty. It nurtures 5hem from beginner to expert. Their great innovation is to turn curious people with problems into innovators or connect them with solution providers. Office and Windows aren't products. They're platforms. The Cloud will make them platforms in hyper-drive. If Google had spent half the energy nurturing Wave developers The Vista of collaboration would be evolving into its Windows 7.
