A critique of Microsoft's software strategy posted on the Web by former Microsoft “shared source” program manager David Stutz is attracting attention, reports Steve Lohr in The New York Times.

“There is a new frontier, where software 'collectives' are being built with ad hoc protocols and with clustered devices,” Stutz writes, in part. “Robotics and automation of all sorts is exposing a demand for sophisticated new ways of thinking. Consumers have an unslakable thirst for new forms of entertainment. And hardware vendors continue to push towards architectures that will fundamentally change the way that software is built by introducing fine-grained concurrency that simply cannot be ignored. There is no clear consensus on systems or application models for these areas. Useful software written above the level of the single device will command high margins for a long time to come.”

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— by Alexander Wolfe, executive editor of WindowsForDevices.com.