Scoble again. Now you know where the pressure for Palladium is coming.

This need for control is certainly plausible enough, but if msft went that way, then Linux has won the desktop already. The triumph of PCs was a revolution through the back door. That’s exactly the way Linux is spreading right now, with increasingly generous dollops of big-business support. Linux will win on the home desktop by placing the user uber alles — if it is porn, p2p and music they want, then that is exactly what they’ll get. And oh, if determines that companies really need TCPA, (say) Redhat may just determine that it’s worth it to offer a TCPA-enabled Linux desktop to companies (with source — the source would go to MIS :-)) and the TCO would still be lowered. For, like it or not, today many MIS-ers (rebus unintended) are asking themselves, “How do we decrease the dollop we pay to our IT vendors, year after year?”

However, not all of Scoble’s analysis is correct: when he talks about Outlook not having a newsreader, he forgets that Outlook Express has a very usable one — beats Mozilla for now in my book. And any admin savvy enough to use IEAK to remove OE will also have a rabid dog and firewall guarding their outgoing TCP requests. And application level filters, for good measure.