These days, Microsoft seems more like IBM: They have a good business supporting stuff they've already done, and have, if anything, a negative incentive to rock

These days, Microsoft seems more like IBM: They have a good business supporting stuff they've already done, and have, if anything, a negative incentive to rock the boat by doing anything new. It's the white dwarf phase of a company: Their innovative "hydrogen fusion" gone, they coast for some indeterminate amount of time on their own internal heat.