Microsoft Research is actually more about scoring government contracts than it is about making amazing products. Microsoft has worked on smart houses, wireless

Microsoft Research is actually more about scoring government contracts than it is about making amazing products. Microsoft has worked on smart houses, wireless sensors, iptv, all kinds of things and they end up with products like the Kin... And to the point of maximizing profits as the goal of capitalism... well if you care about only having rich shareholders and think investors should be the only meaningful winners in the equation, well then short term capitalism will continue to wreak havoc every few years.