It's a bit of a carrot-and-stick strategy. The carrot is to produce industry-accepted solutions that enterprises want to deploy. The stick is that the carriers are in agreement on these practices and will be checking to see that the vendors are in compliance.

Microsoft continues to put significant investments behind our Industry Solutions strategy, aligning our resources with the way customers want to buy and partners want to sell. Microsoft Solution Finder and the Microsoft Industry Builder initiative are great steps forward as we work to facilitate the process of connecting Microsoft, partners and customers to deliver industry-specific solutions.

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass
gets trampled.

Enterprises must either adopt multi core or stick with slower chips.

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.