This is a pretty optimistic view. Kinect is great. Granted. Windows 7 is great. Granted. Windows Phone 7 is great. I haven't one, but I'll just say Granted. But

This is a pretty optimistic view. Kinect is great. Granted. Windows 7 is great. Granted. Windows Phone 7 is great. I haven't one, but I'll just say Granted. But from there, to say it will erase all traces of Android’s inconsequential existence on this plane. Whoaa!! That's a LOT. Manufacturers choose Android, because they can personalize it and differentiate from the competition. Carriers privilege android, because they want to control what's done with the devices, and ask for changes to the manufacturers. They don't want to change that for now, even if they still have to pay Microsoft for Android's patents. That's something that Microsoft still has to solve. And of course, Windows 8... that OS may define Microsoft's future entirely. Will it be a success? I don't know. I hope so, but we'll have to wait. If they manage to impose it as THE real alternative to Apple's tablets (displacing Android from this position at least in this form factor), Microsoft will really show its back on track. And of course, while the article presents Google as a hyperactive fat kid in a pastry shop who simply doesn’t know what to focus on, Microsoft is struggling in the same way: Remember Bing, they are still trying to figure out how to make people use it. Buying Skype (let's hope they can figure out how to use it better than Ebay). Partnering with Nokia, because the other manufacturers practically ignored them. I repeat, I REALLY hope that Microsoft gets back on track. It would be great for everyone of us! More competition, more advances! But we have to wait a few key months before we can say something like this.