Changes in the wind?

Recently I saw that Microsoft is going to be working with SAP to improve communication between SAP and Office. This should have been done long ago. As for the open source community I have not seen anything similar (although it may exist) for linking OpenOffice.org and any ERP type software. Shame on us for not fully developing such a thing (although it may exist, I haven't heard of it so it may as well not be in existence) I also see that once again Microsoft has tried to trounce Firefox although from what I have seen of the new IE it still comes up short. Firefox is perfectly good as it is so theres no reason to give MS a second look. As for Linux, what about Freespire from Linspire? I read one critical article that takes the idea of open source to the extreme. While it would be nice to have a totally open platform it wont happen any time soon and Linspire is geared at the novice user migrating away from Windows. I think that this will give what is already a great distro some more leverage and may even make some Linux users take notice. There seems to be a strong push from Novel as well, I knew this company was destined for greatness years ago but no one listened then. I saw just how much they are focusing on business which will be the Linux winning formula. Most people will use what they use at work at home. Most people use the computer at work more than at home anyway so why not make it the same? People in reality are much lazier than software companies give them credit for. Learning another OS is the last thing people have on their mind and what if they want to tele-commute? Have to have what the office has right? Actually they don't for the most part thanks to ajax.Write.com and OpenOffice.org but anyway people don't know about those yet so they continue in the doldrums of techno Mesopotamia while the open source world and the informed move ahead.