Henry Blodgett asks, Is Microsoft Getting Pragmatic in Middle Age?

Henry Blodgett asks, Is Microsoft Getting Pragmatic in Middle Age?

His examples of increased willingness to “partner for strength” in a non-hypercompetitive and non-monopolistic way (negotiations with AOL, partnering with record companies, linking MSN and Yahoo messaging) are pretty small beer, compared to the vast armada of not very resigned behavior that we see in the news practically every day — Ballmer throwing a chair when an engineer goes to Google, Bill Gates getting in a shouting match with Sony over DVD formats.

There does seem to be an increasing aura of sclerosis and desperation around Microsoft. Was Longhorn their “bridge too far”?

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