>>I've heard that you can make good money working WITH M$, but nobody got really well of working FOR them. They'd be a nice notch on the belt - I only went as far as phone interview, and still count that among my bragging rights, but actually didn't exactly feel like working for a company I love to hate.
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>I think the revolution in media distribution that's about to happen means working in a technology company will be the most exciting job in the world.

Define exciting. I'd rather say I wouldn't have the stomach to sit there and watch them try to make YAMM (yet another Microsoft monopoly), this time stealing from the thieves: taking over Hollywood's and TV networks' monopoly over what people watch. And taking over MPAA's (members') monopoly over which music is published and advertised and which is seen/heard nowhere.

Being a part of that fight may be exciting, but may not leave a good feeling in the mouth.

>But does Microsoft have the infrastructure to execute?

You mean brains? They have done their best so far to earn the well respected title of the company which cannot be trusted. See how Google is doing what M$ couldn't - people ARE using online office tools, online storage, they even trust their links, cookies and passwords to Google. M$ tried to do the same thing for years, and got nowhere. Remember the Passport hype and broohaha? Or should I spell it brew-ha-ha, because it came out a nasty brew. M$ had to back up on that, because people don't trust them; they're known cheaters, they're known to be doing things behind everybody's back, they're known disseminators of their own spyware, their software calls home and tells on you, and their firewall won't tell you who's calling home. And they have been polluting your desktop with ads since W95 and so on and so on.

So while they may have the hardware to pull it off (because we're buying it - "easy is to shake hawthorns with another's dick"), they may as well have lost the user base. The ubiquity of Windowses doesn't automatically mean equally widespread adoption of every scheme the Redmond honchos think of.

>They're reminding me a lot more of present day Sun these days than they do of present day Apple, not in ideas, but in execution.

What can you expect of a company with so many lawyers? Not that they can't get the code right, they can't get the marketing right.