Do you 'Partners' keep in touch er subrosa ??
Isn't time approaching for some coordinated unCivil disobedience? (Also involving a war party to Wash DC about the implications).
Given just the above (rather complete) list and the implications which even a Martian could deduce, never even having seen Ballmer dance: don't you call such a position plain old untenable? (I mean - for you guys to even pretend to 'play', for much longer)
I'm naive, but - doesn't, "we all hang together or assuredly each hangs separately" - still ring a few bells with your peers? Frankly, I can't see how even the smarter folk on this list can salvage a livelihood much longer, without *some* organized opposition to this Taliban of IT.
Putting this stuff together is kinda like watching that 767 bank in slo-mo and hit that tower, over and over.. However many times I hear the scenario, it doesn't compute! I keep hearing that these biz-MBAs have *NO IDEA* what it means: to permanently lose control of your very own basic company *data* ??
{sheesh}
Recession --> Depression --> world techno-center moves irreversibly to Eur-Asia within 2-4 years
Yessss Redmond == Mordor, my preciousssss