Though I find the comments of both Lee and Rubin to be very short sighted, this article is equally limited in vision. I doubt Google or Microsoft are as far be

Though I find the comments of both Lee and Rubin to be very short sighted, this article is equally limited in vision. I doubt Google or Microsoft are as far behind as the author describes. Microsoft has already been working with voice interaction with Kinect on, and WP7 has voice search. The Kinect API is being built into Windows 8. I haven't used Android (about to install it on my touchpad), but my understanding is that the voice capabilities are there, just not as refined as Siri. Apple has a lead here, but I doubt it is insurmountable. The challenge once again for Google and MS is that Apple has jumped up and said "we're the first to do this", and are marketing the hell out of it, so everybody else just looks like imitators.