If it was as polished, fluid, and well-thought-out as the iPad, I think it would. Microsoft is doing well with the XBox; it's not completely incapable of cranki

If it was as polished, fluid, and well-thought-out as the iPad, I think it would. Microsoft is doing well with the XBox; it's not completely incapable of cranking out new innovative products. (Kinect, for instance.) It's just that they don't do that very often. Microsoft doesn't have the aesthetics to build something like the iPad; it's completely foreign to the way they approach almost all of their products. They're not known for the thing that makes the iPad successful: simplicity. Simplicity in hardware, software, and product positioning. If Microsoft made the iPad and its ecosystem, it would be successful. The trouble is, they didn't -- and they don't seem to have any cohesive, likely-to-succeed strategy to attack it.