>I guess the truck-load of revenue isn't sufficient because investors still expect Microsoft to push fresh and innovative products. I'm sorry, but when has MS

>I guess the truck-load of revenue isn't sufficient because investors still expect Microsoft to push fresh and innovative products. I'm sorry, but when has MS ever done this? Office. I'm struggling to think of a single other example ever. Everything they've ever done, as far as I can tell, has been to take what others have done and make either a cheaper (as in, how much will it cost me to use it) copy of it or used their existing monopoly to force it in place. One has to expect that when a companies model works like this that they won't be able to keep up at some point. I think the zune was the first incident of this happening. As someone mentioned elsewhere Zune showed up at the party years late, so even though it was decent and cheap everyone had moved on.