Microsoft starts taking shots at Google's Android

[Bratman]

Dear Mr. Ballmer
I know you must protect your product, your very existence depends on it. I know you're just doing your job... dis it now while you can and try to slow the process, but like life, the process shall prevail. Any good marketing person knows that.
How will it make money, you Mr. Ballmer, can probably come up with 2 dozen different ways to exploit Android. A pretty stable OS out the gate, remember Win-Mo v1... Not so stable was it.... Android has a really good start and people are excited, You can't buy that kind of press.

Bring people in with free apps in the beginning, establish a market then add premium apps at a cost, give your developers a real chance to make some decent money off their labor (Hint: Steve Jobs). Give the consumer an abundance of cool apps and a platform to freely exploit, they'll come running...
Establish the OS on phones across the the board, bring more people to your advertising base.
There is a strategy but it's built for the long term, kind of like this country where freedom and capitalism can co-exist to built something from a small garage based idea to a multi-billion biz... Kind of like...er a Microsoft... (Green blinking cursor)
Oh, don't forget your roots.... Where's a young Bill Gates when you need him...

2 Cents..... properly used can accumulate to millions...
Bratman