while msft is

no doubt thawing to the idea of doing more open source projects and collaborating with the open source community, i have to wonder how the company is going to fold these projects into its business model i.e. how does msft make a business case? one argument i can think of is this: the more msft gets comfortable with open source, the more open source users would be willing to use msft products in hybridized development efforts. is this more proof of msft's increasing focus on services and solutions and away from products?