Microsoft kicks the dog

Wow. I've been reading Cringley's column since the beginning of 2005
and this is the first time I've really had to bow to his insight. This
week, beginning May 9th, 2005 will forever change the world of
technology. Opportunities abound, companies will grow, companies will
die. This is the battlefield of tech.

Tipping Point, Inflection
Point, whatever you want to call it, we've rounded a corner. 
Here's the meat, straight from the horses mouth.

Inflection Point

This Week Changed the World of High Tech
Forever, Though Most of Us Still Don't Know It

By Robert X. Cringely

It's an expression made popular in Silicon Valley years ago
by Andy Grove of Intel: "inflection point." It's that abrupt
elbow in a graph of growth or decline when the new technology
or paradigm truly kicks in, and suddenly there is no going
back. From that moment, the new stuff takes off and the old
stuff goes into rapid decline, whether it is a new standard
of modem, a new video game, a new microprocessor family, or
just a new idea. I think we've just hit such an inflection
point and -- though most of us still don't realize it -- the
personal computer, video game, and electronic entertainment
businesses will never be the same.

 Just go read the article.