But my point is still this. All of the new computing areas are ones that were big areas of development when I was there. Yet Microsoft still can't produce a p

But my point is still this. All of the new computing areas are ones that were big areas of development when I was there. Yet Microsoft still can't produce a product in these areas that people want to buy. I think you are right that it goes to predatory behavior, but I think there is another aspect too. There is very little groundbreaking work in UI paradigms to come out of Microsoft. They didn't invent the WIMP approach. They did manage to invent Bob.... But it means that they had no expertise in the things that were needed to catch the trends they were trying to ride. It took Apple to develop a really good touchscreen interface. So I keep coming back to problems of execution. Yeah. Outlook(TM) not so good ;-)