The trouble with IT is that things rarely stay the same. In an endlessly shifting marketplace, where a constantly mutating state of flux is the norm , no sooner have you fixed your perceptions than someone goes and turns the whole situation on its head.
Witness the case of Microsoft, the technology industry's favourite bogeyman: long perceived as a jealous corporate monster that's fiercely defensive approach to its products has traditionally seen feral lawyers roaming the globe in slavering packs ready to leap on the slightest infringement of the Redmond giant's intellectual property with a broadside of nuclear-tipped writs, the company last week astounded many observers with an announcement that flew in the face of this well-established attitude.
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