Microsoft set to respond to Google Chrome OS next Monday?

Key word here: "respond"

Obviously everything here is conjecture but looking at Microsoft's current line up what I see is a bunch of products designed around a competitor rather than a customer. I suspect this will be no different.

It seems like they're going off the old Microsoft playbook but someone forgot the second half of the strategy.

They've got the "Enter a growing market and pour a lot of money into it" down. Now it's time for someone to focus on the "Innovate so that your product is equal to or better than the competitor" part.

Microsoft's announcement next Monday has almost certainly been in the pipeline since before Google revealed Chrome OS, so it's not a response.

Ok. So I'm interested in what this may be. That said, I'm not going to vote up news about upcoming news.