"Microsoft basically stopped innovating around 2000" Microsoft never innovated in the first place. The BASIC compilers, the command line, word processor, the s

"Microsoft basically stopped innovating around 2000" Microsoft never innovated in the first place. The BASIC compilers, the command line, word processor, the spreadsheet, the graphical OS, the visual compiler, the browser, the graphics drivers... all were invented outside Microsoft. Microsoft strength was not inventing tech, but on adopting tech made by others and riding the wave of hundreds of millions of people getting access to computers.