Ex-Microsoftie: Free Software Will Kill Redmond (ComputerWorld)

"The way microsoft turned the linux netbook tide to the current situation where most netbooks come with windows XP shows that microsoft is good (for it's size, _very_ good) at adapting."

Adaptation? The only thing they did was their normal conditional discount deal shenanigans. Same thing they've been doing for at least 15 years. If there's one thing MS is good at, it is delaying the inevitable.