'!', I thank you. You got some wheels turning in my head. I realized how to kinda sum up what MS is doing. They're making the transition from selling products to a model like Twatter has always been -- showing ads or selling add-ons to monetizable users. 
I think they're afraid that if they do it all at once, users might walk away. It's funny that Google's beaten them to a shelled-out husk of an OS (I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, in some ways it can be easier to 'secure' for example), but I wonder if MS believes it will be able to continue sell Windows...
I think they're afraid that if they do it all at once, users might walk away. It's funny that Google's beaten them to a shelled-out husk of an OS (I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, in some ways it can be easier to 'secure' for example), but I wonder if MS believes it will be able to continue sell Windows...