>I just noticed that IBM's market cap just passed MSFT, for the first time in well over a decade, not sure what year MSFT passed IBM years ago. It was a year ago last month that Apple passed Microsoft in market cap. So Microsoft has gone from being the first to the third largest computer/software company in just a year.

Microsoft is the IBM of yesteryear! I never thought I would see IBM adopt/improve cutting edge technologies faster and with better results than Microsoft. I would say the Marketers and Sales run the show and strategy now at MS rather than ENgineers...