
From the outside it looks as though it’s been a week of turmoil at Microsoft. But as the confusion dies down, it’s possible to see the past seven days as just another step to on the road to a very different Microsoft — a Microsoft that reflects changes in the way computing will be delivered over the next decade. We shouldn’t be surprised. Every company needs to reinvent itself, and Microsoft’s reinvention has been telegraphed for a long time. There have been catch-phrases, public trials of tools and technologies, four or five years of evangelising web-service endpoints and model view controller frameworks. Read the full story at ZDNet.