One of the main problems about technological visions of utopia is that they so often assume that perfection is the absence of problems. Perhaps, but the more a world approaches that perfection, the more limited it becomes by necessity. Hence, the glimpse of Microsoft's world of optimal productivity is a glimpse of an intellectual and spiritual desert: meetings without purposes, productivity with nothing to produce. Human ingenuity exists to solve problems, so it's extremely ironic what emerges when we project to a world where technological ingenuity has vanquished the problems we deal with today.
Yes, but it's in some abstract, distant part of the world that hasn't yet been transformed by MS technology. So this company is trying to do the right thing and help them from afar, in the end goal of spreading Utopia, connectivity, and screen technology.
