What a silly claim. There's no question that the last decade at Microsoft is full of faulty assumptions and bad execution. But these memos as visionary? Feh! 1

What a silly claim. There's no question that the last decade at Microsoft is full of faulty assumptions and bad execution. But these memos as visionary? Feh! 1) 2005 is four years after Hailstorm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_HailStorm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_HailStorm) and already pretty late for a "services focus" to be forward-looking. 2) October 2010 is right about when Windows Phone 7 shipped, and therefore a year after the "reset" of the previous phone effort. At this point, "devices" is obvious to the point of "duh". 3) There's a world of difference between saying "X is important" and "X is important, therefore we should do Y".