I'm not so sure about that. For starters, technical ability probably isn't a problem. The tablet didn't fail for technical reasons, it failed for business rea

I'm not so sure about that. For starters, technical ability probably isn't a problem. The tablet didn't fail for technical reasons, it failed for business reasons -- mostly driven my Microsoft's insistence on not supporting it intelligently. After all, for years the Tablet PC platform carried a large price premium AND performance deficit... which ruled it out of pretty much every market that it would otherwise have appealed to -- a big one being CG artists. I expect that there are quite a few people at Microsoft that DO get it, but I'm pretty sure that Ballmer isn't one of them. Part of my evidence for this is based on the fact that the more Ballmer leaves things alone (games) the more successful they are. Microsoft produces a lot of great games -- and I am fairly certain that if Ballmer exerted more control over those games, they'd be quite a bit less successful.