GIGO: words unreadable aloud

MS vs Sun, Sony, Linux ...

A couple of weeks ago, John O'Sullivan wrote a message on advogato about Charles Ferguson's book High Stakes, No Prisoners ...

Charles Ferguson tells the story of his start up Vermeer, how they saw the opportunity for FrontPage, and then sold the company to Microsoft. He gives a compelling account of the Web industry in 94, 95, 96 and 97: how Netscape had a historic opportunity ...

John O'Sullivan came to this conclusion:

For me these trends point inescapably to one conclusion: Microsoft's next phase of growth will be driven by Xbox users authenticated via Passport-consuming, .NET-hosted services delivered over cable or ADSL to their homes and being billed for those services by the cable or telco company. [...] Only by disguising the client PC as a games console can MS get into the homes that aren't interested in computers or the Internet per se. [...] Passport will be used to match the users to the cable company's customer records.

And this sparked a lively discussion. Not sure what I think about it yet.
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