Microsoft is a great technology company. But their monopoly position has shielded them from the realities of the marketplace. Among them: Customers don’t want to pay $500 for an office suite. They don’t want to pay another $500 for a Windowing environment. They don’t want to have their customers stolen by Passport. They don’t want to have their media locked up in Windows Media format.

— Jonathan Schwartz, VP at Sun

Of course, he’s right. And while I don’t know if Sun can capitalize on these blindspots of Microsoft’s, it does dovetail nicely with the infrastructure talk that Doc Searls gave at OSCon