Perhaps, but it should be noted that: (1) The Xbox did not conflict with any of MSFT's existing businesses. (2) It was an established product that MSFT did

Perhaps, but it should be noted that: (1) The Xbox did not conflict with any of MSFT's existing businesses. (2) It was an established product that MSFT did not add much to. It was a console, which was operated the same way that other consoles were operated. It does not require much business leadership to do that. Ironically that's kind of like Linux's development model. For a band of scattered, (formerly) unfunded hackers, that's ok. For a company in an evolving area like tech, it's not really acceptable.