Ask HN:iPad and chrome-os might be disruptive, how can Microsoft react?
If we assume iPad, tables, chrome-os computers would find a crowd among non-techies. How can microsoft react to this ?
And then use those applications to conquer many vertical markets for the non-techies crowd.
for example: Microsoft should built some platform using mathematica or similar software to sell interactive educational math books. With right way of selling it to colleges this could work very well.