Industry titan Thad McIlroy, Crown Prince of Publishing Punditry, called Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to task on Thad's blog yesterday for this MSFT gem as quoted in the WashPo:

"There will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form."

To that, the Sultan of Substance, the Mogul of Metadata quipped:

"In 10 years there will be no software that Microsoft will be able to profit from either in operating systems or as shrink-wrapped software."

What do you folks think?

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by Joel Friedman
Graph Expo opened in Chicago yesterday, on a beautiful sunny day on the shores of Lake Michigan. The two largest US integrators, NAPC and IO Integration, have booths here, and Xinet representatives seem to move from one to the other and back again as needs dictate. The booths are only about 30 feet apart.>>>

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