>Hi Hank,
>
>Confirmation of what we knew intuitively from various blog posts and by observing - eg- the poor % of VFP to .Net conversion.

Hardly the deciding front to observe ;-))

>.Net has kept trying to catch up with existing techs like Java and Flash at the time they were dominating, and just before their decline started.

That is way too harsh: C# surpassed Java in lang capabilities, only recently Java has reclaimed lost ground.

>Whatever Microsoft invested on .Net to preserve the domination of Windows is pure loss today, given the recent strategy shift.
>I hope this new strategy will work for ms, though I'm afraid that the area of on-line services is due to a price war, given its limited differential advantage (unique, defensible and sustainable)

Defensible and sustainable (pure cost of hosting plus needed attention/maintainance) I understand. Dunno what you mean with unique... But at least the thrashing way of strategy evolution shows that they at least realize the danger - Blackberry and Nokia disappeared almost silently.