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Story: Microsoft: Commoditising managed services

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In short: we'll think of something based on quantity rather then quality and can be pushed to the markets ahead of schedule and you'll like it. If however you more like the other guys solutions then you don't know what is good for us.

Also, in the world of Microsoft, so far, there's standardized (them) and standardized (us) . The latter they much like to patent and flavour with all sorts of attached strings. The first one they extend, embrace, exterminate (usually by means of build-in reduced or delayed functionality from their end towards the other guy solution) if they have their way just to make room for the latter, their preferred, option. Ofcourse that'll be named an invention (tm) then.

Strategy of today: control the desktops, control the servers, control the formats, control the communications and control access to data (and information) as well. That way people will have choice. The choices Microsoft allows them to make.

Perhaps Microsoft understands all to well what freedom of choice really means. Because freedom of choice doesn't mean one can choose to let ones data depand on internal solutiosn that depand on Microsoft products or outsourced solutions that depand on Microsoft products. Freedom of choice means that one can switch products, vendors and providers without loss of data, information, service and quality. Because that would trigger the kind of competition that's good for customers.

Nowedays it's rather quantity then quality that's the deciding factor for most and it has lead to overweight IT solutions including the usual risk increasements that come with being overweight.

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