The last time I checked, all the corporations want to be monopoly!
... who opens shop not to make money?
Even google is making money ok!
Anyway, I think it will be some development ... as to whether its exciting ... its really arbitary. There had been MS flops and wins. So far, the coin is flipping heads (wins) up more often ... eg, like it or not, Windows 95 really did a major change to computing ... at least desktop. Bundling IE in it further brought internet to the mass, riding on the initial wave by mosaic and netscape.
MS also had its flops: (I won't mention MS Bob, 'cos everyone mentions it but it flopped so badly I never quite heard or seen it before!
) ... there is the tablet PC ... which didn't quite change the world. The HandheldPC (I am using one) which was axed some 3~4 years ago after PPCs took the pda world by storm... etc etc.
Oh well ... we'll see next week. Anything that is < $500 (ie, within my budget) ... is good!