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Ballmer looks like someone in need of a holiday before his heart revolts and organizes one for him. Microsoft seem to be trying to fight all comers on all fronts and it must be utterly exhausting. They also seem obsessed with competition or, at least, they can't stop talking about it. Insecurity, I guess. Lack of focus, too, possibly. If you are really involved in creating a great product, you don't think too much about the competition, just about the product and making it better.

Any road, none of the "the world as we see it" coming from Microsoft at present sounds very healthy. It's almost as if the prediction from Sony's old chairman Akio Morita is coming true, that Microsoft will die slowly and exhausted from a thousand cuts and not from one dramatic change.

Some of Vista looks great. Why shouldn't it be a much better OS than WinXP? However, the only thing that really matters is whether it will run OK on my (or your) machine and we are a very long way from knowing that at the moment other than via opinions and guesses which aren't much use.