It looks like Microsoft missed the major upgrade cycle from 2004 to early this year. Windows Vista would have been a much better story in 2005 than in 2006, or, realistically, 2007.

We never said Microsoft has decided [to rebrand RSS], ... It's a year ahead of [Windows Vista] being released and we?re trying to work with the community to get some consensus.

If you run Windows on a Mac, it's another copy for Microsoft. Better yet, it's on a competitor's hardware. It would be like Microsoft taking it to Apple's home field.

Microsoft would certainly benefit if say a Comcast or some other broadband providers with popular portals chose MSN as the default search.

[The lesson both Microsoft and Linux supporters should take from the survey results?] Nobody buys an operating system, ... They buy applications. The operating system is there for the application.

There's a legitimate upgrade cycle coming. It's just getting started.