Microsoft's been quite willing to play hard-ball and jump into areas where they can attempt to aggresively compete and hopefully squash competitors. Look at Zun

Microsoft's been quite willing to play hard-ball and jump into areas where they can attempt to aggresively compete and hopefully squash competitors. Look at Zune, Silverlight, Windows Mobile, XBox. The trouble is, they've largely failed in the marketplace, with the XBox as the only success. Blaming this failure on 'the politicians' is unconvincing, to say the least.