They did Kinect - that's not innovation for you? They took very different approach to Win Phone 7 - that's not innovation? And innovation doesn't have to involv

They did Kinect - that's not innovation for you? They took very different approach to Win Phone 7 - that's not innovation? And innovation doesn't have to involve stupidity - there is no real reason to, for example, throw away Windows and start over. At least not yet. And besides, that is not what makes Microsoft tick - it's hard core engineering and execution that makes them tick. The problem is, innovation doesn't have a formula. The fascination with "disruptive innovation" is admirable but building something no one has built before, doing things better and different than anyone else has before, creating new markets - these things are rare occurrences whose success depends on lot of things - timing, market needs, technical advances, some visionary having the right flash of vision that then is executed flawlessly etc. Point is it's far from easy and I don't think you can count anyone out because they haven't been disruptive for some time.