Five Free Tips for Microsoft’s Board  | The Back Page  I've had
enough. I've flat out just had enough. Microsoft has been
stumbling from one disaster to another since Bill Gates stepped
aside as CEO, and it's time for the company's board of directors
to make some changes.  Being the handy-dandy-armchair-
quarterback that is part of my job, I thought I'd put together
some tips for that board, and I'm doing so free of charge. Let
it be known that I am as magnanimous as I am humble.  1 - A
Keyboard?  We all know what a stunning success the iPad has
been. The darn thing has completely upset the PC apple cart (see
what I did there?), and it rewrote a ton of rules in the
process.  I know you're freaked out by that, Microsoft, and I
know that you feel you have to be as reactionary to Apple's
tablet phenom as you are to everything else that other companies
do first. I can't help but notice, however, that you think that
your years-late response's best feature is a detachable
keyboard.  So, listen: if you look at the su