If you want to understand Microsoft, you could do a lot worse than reading http://hal2020.com/ http://hal2020.com/, by a former General Manager at Microsoft. I

If you want to understand Microsoft, you could do a lot worse than reading http://hal2020.com/ http://hal2020.com/, by a former General Manager at Microsoft. I learn something from pretty much every blog post he writes. For instance, in his most recent post he discusses how the lack of coordination between the divisions after the 2005 reorg can be viewed as a feature rather than a bug, but also something that now needs to be changed.