Fair points, counters: a) "may be irrelevant given the emergence of connected televisions" - Don't dismiss the millions of gamers that will buy in next generat

Fair points, counters: a) "may be irrelevant given the emergence of connected televisions" - Don't dismiss the millions of gamers that will buy in next generation for MSFT exlusives like Halo which popped off $200m in sale in a day, bringing net total Halo copies to ~34m sold. b) I argued for #3 which I think is in the bank with RIMM falling all over themselves. And the competition definitely isn't free, not even Android - http://www.businessinsider.com/android-costs http://www.businessinsider.com/android-costs - I believe we'll see a trend towards Win7 adoption from companies that aren't going for vertical integration. c) I believe this is the point that holds the most water. But to continue my contrarian rant I'd say that I put some credit into the argument that MSFT is fighting this war explicitly to distract Google's attention from desktop / mobile / etc.