I know this is a bit of a thread jack, but this same attitude now playing out on Xbox in the console space. The recent FTC attempt to block the Activision merge

I know this is a bit of a thread jack, but this same attitude now playing out on Xbox in the console space. The recent FTC attempt to block the Activision merger surfaced emails saying that they were just going to outspend Sony to further consolidate and buy a higher position in the market, because they can. There's nothing in any of Microsoft's revealed communications over the years where they ever seem to aspire to make better products. I mean, sure, obviously, there are pockets inside the company, but that has never seemed to be the purview of the board or the executives. If there's a thought leader in there somewhere who had passion to make great products like Jobs, I can't think of who it would be. I almost feel bad for Microsoft, and I say this as a Microsoft-hater and Linux zealot who ran it on the desktop for 19 years before switching to Mac. It's the legacy backward-compatibility that makes Windows so attractive to a lot of organizations which makes it so vulnerable. OTOH, corporate IT divisions love it because Microsoft lets them do all sorts of stupid things to it, like prevent me from changing the desktop background, so it's kind of a deserved punishment.