The age old Microsoft dilemma where it clings on to the Windows OS yet Office makes a huge pile of money and profit. There has been investor moves to carve out this division (and rightly so) to maximise growth, increase revenue and improve product agility.
These days people want cross platform and don't care what runs underneath so long as it gives them the features they want. If Microsoft don't wake up to this or they are going to implode under their own ham-fistedness. I suspect the problem lies within Microsoft and political division between the Windows and Office groups resulting in sabotage and infighting.
Does Office need the R&D cost of Windows weighing it down ?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
