Quite the opposite for me. I'm much more likely to try a cool new app from Microsoft than I am from some random startup I've never heard of. Lots of cool techno

Quite the opposite for me. I'm much more likely to try a cool new app from Microsoft than I am from some random startup I've never heard of. Lots of cool technology innovation going on at Microsoft (yes, really). One of many examples: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype... (according to another comment here, this is also included in the app)