"This is an op-ed piece, so this is just one person’s opinion on the three companies and how they are characterized. YMMV. However, I will suggest that Microsoft is one of the main reasons why we live in a world today where ample commoditized computing power is everywhere. They are the ones that helped lead the computer revolution for the past two decades. And we can’t deny the fact that millions of companies and enterprises today do depend on them in a day-in-day-out basis. I like your pick-up artist analogy. However, since we are not in the real world and we are in the world of analogies and metaphors, I would argue that everyone should be a pick-up artist. Because I believe we are all sophisticated enough and diversified enough that frankly speaking, not any one girl can entirely satisfy all of our needs, or even 80% of them. Why settle for adequacy when you can have it all?" - Jonathan Wong