No, AOL Time Warner should buy Apple Computer. We all know what that does to creativity. Development is not a natural part of product life cycle - the sooner people get that out of their heads the better. Products spend far longer alive in production then they do in development.
Development is the exceptional case.
I'm not defending MS here, but this presentation of quality development and meeting some release target is totally bogus when compared to real-world development. I don't imagine he develops his web site that way, either. They certainly deserve credit for what they do with the technology, but it's not like they invented it. I don't understand why people think of Microsoft as particularly special in this regard and accuse them of simply stealing other people's ideas. About 1.5 years ago AOL started working with Gateway on product development.