Well done, Sterling. Your payment is at the usual drop.
We live in an era of unprecedented access to information. It's very strange that that also seems to translate to an era where many large organizations- and individuals, honestly- hear only a version of information that allows them to continue to believe what they want to believe and do what they choose to do, to excuse and justify decisions rather than refine or alter them.
You don't make a decision to dominate the market, decide what you're going to do, and then make the market like it until you control them. It just doesn't work that way. Microsoft appears to be working under assumptions and policies that might actually be worse than if they were making decisions with a dart board.
We live in an era of unprecedented access to information. It's very strange that that also seems to translate to an era where many large organizations- and individuals, honestly- hear only a version of information that allows them to continue to believe what they want to believe and do what they choose to do, to excuse and justify decisions rather than refine or alter them.
You don't make a decision to dominate the market, decide what you're going to do, and then make the market like it until you control them. It just doesn't work that way. Microsoft appears to be working under assumptions and policies that might actually be worse than if they were making decisions with a dart board.