Yes, win7 was a success, but weighted with Vista's failure & its 5 years to debut, I won't call it so. wp7? we still have to wait it out, but again, it'll have

Yes, win7 was a success, but weighted with Vista's failure & its 5 years to debut, I won't call it so. wp7? we still have to wait it out, but again, it'll have to be weighted along with Kin's billion dollar failure. xbox360 does not define Microsoft. I think you're looking more at what he did, which isn't much in the past 10+ years, in terms of both market penetration (except for IE, but it's declining) and in terms of market capital, instead of what could have been done in hands of more capable person. If Eric Schmidt or say Steve Jobs were running Microsoft in the past 10 years, I don't think Microsoft would languish as is. If the board had been doing its job, it had to have planed his exit for years. Why it hasn't happened yet could be lack of better candidate or lack of excuse like HP's dismiss of Hurd.