>>Buggy whips always come in handy - if only to seek redress from scoundrels ! <s>

LOL

FWIW, I don't think Hank is looking for a new Fox. He (along with others) identified a series of bullets that he valued and that happened to be implicit in Fox. Had MS offered those bullets on any of their development pathways, I have absolutely no doubt that HF would have remained a MS stalwart along with many others who are accused of "dithering". ;-)

FWIW, MS has been one of history's most successful companies, but it is not infallible. Look at the mobile debacle- IMHO shareholders should have flayed a generation of MS executives for ceding the desktop of the future to an upstart with absolutely no UI heritage. Instead there seems to be widespread acceptance of the MS kool-aid from shareholders and loyalists. That's a comfortable strategy when MS rules the roost but MS is a midget in the future mobile arena and almost certainly will display Machiavellian tendencies when the crunch comes... favoring Nokia over earlier WP7 handset makers is only the start.