Preaching From the Ballmer Pulpit
Steve Lohr keeps rewriting the same story over and over, but his publisher contunies to pay him so the advertisers must be pleased.
Microsoft is where it is today because of its Partners, the PC revolution happened through communities of enthusiast building faster and cheaper machines with more and more memory.
The creation of an Operating System is a political, social as well as a technological challenge. Standards and specifications are the result of cooperation between many Partners competing in a economic system.
Google doesn’t write drivers, somebody has to understand the transition and action of code to the flow of electrons through intricate circuits.