Corporate brainstorming
Brainstorming that relates to the improvement of corporate thinking, as exemplified by Corporate America
General Ideas
Corporate Exorcism
...or removing the evil features from various corporations, in small manageable steps
Microsoft
Background
Microsoft currently faces an increasingly negative image, especially among the most technologically aware segments of the market. While that group is only a tiny share of Microsoft's potential marketspace, their opinions on software (and computing in general) tend to be sought out by others, who then make buying decisions based on those opinions -- so those opinions tend to have a disproportionately large effect on the marketplace.
The Idea
Microsoft could go a long way towards reversing this trend by doing one thing which would cost them very little: release all of their old operating systems (anything older than a certain number of years -- say 5-7 -- or anything for which official support had been discontinued) under an open-source license.
- The big corporations, who are MS's main customers anyway, would continue to get the Latest