For Microsoft, developing and selling software has fallen by the wayside

I hate agreeing with John Dvorak. I hate it because it usually means I’m wrong. Not just “Oh well” wrong but seriously, dangerously, life-threateningly wrong.

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Until now, Microsoft could sell code better than anyone, but it seems the company would rather sell services: software as a service, ads, search engine results—you name it. This is like the local storefront that opens as a knife-sharpening business and is soon selling junk jewelry, moose heads, toaster repair, and cheap chocolate. In the meantime, the knife-sharpening business goes by the wayside. This is what has happened to Microsoft, and Vista is the result.

Worse, he threatens to switch to Linux or the Mac.