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Story: Microsoft has lost its grip on the ecosystem

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A Tremor Can Change Your Whole World

Microsoft is beginning to remind me of Harry Truman on Mount St. Helens the day before it blew: May 18, 1980. The hermit refused to leave his home on the slopes of his beloved volcano. He was too old and set in his ways to consider relocating. Twelve hours later his relocated molecules were part of a new landscape. Mount St. Helens made the decision for him. Oddly enough, Microsoft's Redmond, WA home is only 266km from Mount St. Helens. And, like Harry, their environment is beginning to suggest new directions for their survival.

Microsoft's existence depends not on directing more brain-power and resources to combat threats to their supremacy, but in one word: Change.

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