No Vision

Tim O’Reilly cut to the heart of the Microsoft Malaise:

[from Slow Dissolve: Bill and Steve at the D Conference - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog]

In response to a question asked by Tim O’Reilly, the computer book publisher and conference impresario, about whether Microsoft had a “big hairy audacious goal,” in the tradition of its original commitment to put a personal computer on every desk and in every home in America, Mr. Ballmer and Mr. Gates suggested that the company now had many big goals, but not a single overarching goal.