Already, Microsoft has succumbed to public pressure and rewritten its Passport license terms, which originally contradicted its own privacy policy and gave it control over every customer communication sent through Passport. Microsoft's biggest challenge going forward could be convincing customers, partners and developers to adopt it. In many ways, Microsoft. Net must overcome the same hurdles that Windows faced during its early years. And like Windows, Microsoft.
Some partners are already on board.
Don't be a bully Lewin insists that the key to Microsoft's success is good behavior, and while no one person can determine that, Lewin's success or failure should be a good indicator of how much the company can really change. Microsoft partners describe the company as a house divided, with newer, more open-minded employees battling it out with the old guard. It's time, they say, for the company to start exercising leadership. If the ISV will license it to them cheaper than they could develop it on their own, they'll license it. Otherwise they'll develop it themselves.