His business card says he is the special counsel for information technology, but the Redmondians believe he's the guy who orchestrates the leaks to journalists whenever the DOJ wants to float a trial balloon. There's a wacky rumor floating around the CeBIT show that Microsoft is thinking about a Linux version of Office. That would be something along the lines of a 7.8 on the Richter scale. This one is right up there with the legend of Bigfoot. Say what you want about the Redmondians, but they're not living in a fantasy world.
Office is the revenue dynamo behind the company's stock valuation.
Speaking of Microsoft, the company's about to announce its latest move to catch up to Palm Computing. The PocketPC will soon sport a better user interface along with more functional application software than Microsoft's handheld PC technology. I understand MS needs to scramble, but, with four different products now based on Windows CE, the upshot is going to be further fragmentation for the platform. At the very least it needs to offer an upgrade to people who use current versions of Windows CE devices. Otherwise, a lot of folks just flushed their money down the toilet.