Bill made the wrong move, again.

Finally, Mr. Microsoft finally announced his big plan today of making his (otherwise available for free on p2p) application suites for $3, exclusively to the children in "qualified poor countries". He might have read my paper few weeks ago, but sadly enough, he didn't get it.

• First, not just poor child in poor countries need a decent personal technology platform - a.k.a a nice little thin client laptop; instead, people who can get most of the instant bangs from a nice cheap laptop are digital divide victims in the developing world.
  
  
• Second, he made it as a charity - and charity is the biggest pile of bullshit that has a sole purpose to entertain the rich donors. It could NEVER be effective, nor sustainable. Why Bill is doing this ? Two words: total control. If he did this in the private sector, i.e. to supply cheap apps for OEM manufacturers who makes sub-$200 laptops, things could go out of control quickly. But this is a donation, a charitable initiative which Bill can pull the plug anytime he wishes.

I was using Google Web 2.0 suite the other day, and I clearly saw why Paul declared the death of Microsoft. Christensen is ultimately right, giant tech leaders always found themselves in extremely difficult situations when it comes to "dump the old crap" and make something new and better - at least this appears to be those well paid MS managers' last concern.

The interesting (and possibility good) thing is, when a market player of this size make a move, many others will jump on the wagon. Among "the others" we are likely to see some true innovators that finally has the courage, knowledge and resource to get things right.