Microsoft Windows is the face of the desktop-of-no-choice; Microsoft Office is the face of the corporate-standard-of-no-choice.
By which I mean, if you don't know anything about computers, when you buy a PC you get Windows. If you're a corporate, you give users Office. Anything else requires thinking, and is too hard.
So the Microsoft market is Corporates, and end-users.
Ray Ozzie has to change that. He made Groove, which understood the need for small business users to establish ad-hoc secure collaboration workspaces, and was so good that Microsoft bought it, and him. So what is the latest thing from Ray?
Live Mesh :- ''Live Mesh puts you at the center of your digital world, seamlessly connecting you to the people, devices, programs, and information you care about – available wherever you happen to be.''
Errm … is it just me, or isn't this just Groove with a different name? Sure, Groove didn't spread out into “devices”, but that's not really very difficult …