Microsoft Marginalized

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Here are the headlines:

Three links – all on CNet.com – about stuff that happened today/yesterday (Google’s phone; Office 2010 pricing) and in the future (the Apple tablet). But all posted today/yesterday and on the news.com front page.

Gee, what is sexy, what is exciting, what matters in the long term?

NOT the Office 2010 pricing, that’s for damn sure.

Yeah, MS got caught in, well, a bad “news cycle,” but what is it offering beyond an update to Office 2000/2003 or whatever? (Uh, nada.)

I’m not a fan of kicking someone when they’re down, put I will point out when someone is down: Yep, Microsoft. I’d buy stock in furniture companies because Ballmer is tossing everything….

My very quick take of what is happening today.

Very slight longer take:

  • People keep talking about an “iPhone” killer. Not going to happen. Not because the iPhone is God, but because it changed everything (phone). Now, it’s just can “x” do better in this new ecosystem than the iPhone…

  • The Google phone is open and very sexy (better than the Droid in some respects).

  • I think this is Google getting impatient – “we realize mobile is key, yet other phones f* up the same. Let’s push the envelope and hope others try to outdo us.”

  • Google:Phones – Oh, to me, MUCH more to come

And I still have a fucking 2000 StarTAC. Yeah, awesome (not…)

But it works for what I do: Make/receive calls. Receive pages…(badly, I admit).