Remember the tablets, how they were supposed to be "the next big thing"? Remember who was pushing them? That's right - it was Bill Gates. Long before Steve Jobs

Remember the tablets, how they were supposed to be "the next big thing"? Remember who was pushing them? That's right - it was Bill Gates. Long before Steve Jobs. Except their product sucked big time because it was built on Windows XP and you had to use a pen with it. And was slow. And expensive. And marketed the wrong way. The same will happen here. The technology and society are simply not ready yet - someone will lead us there, but it won't be Microsoft. They never were inovators, they were always just businessmen. And no, you can't change the company any more than you can change a person. Has IBM changed? (well, I hear the ties are optional now ;) Apple? Sony? Google? Facebook? Yahoo? The shades change, but the color remains the same. (full disclosure: yes, I am biased - I had to live under torture that is known as Internet Explorer for too many years... may it rest in peace, along with all its reincarnations) </rant>