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Originally Posted by Snappy!
If innovation means creating something totally new based on nothing that was designed by others, then practically no one can claim to be innovating.
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Yes, but our out-of-balance copyright laws and the inability of the patent office to determine the obvious-ness of something is a different topic.
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Originally Posted by Snappy!
Just because MS let IE become stagnant after that does not mean we should simply discredit it for IE's success in the browser war.
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I think you missed my point.
Once a company has effectively become a monopoly, they lose any incentive to innovate or even improve their product.
IE is an example of this. Once MS "won" the browser war, they didn't improve IE - because everyone used it and they had an effective monopoly. When I talk about improvements, I'm not talking about adding incompatible new features. Heck, most people would just have liked to see IE improved to just adhere to W3C standards.
MS has been proven to be a monopoly and they have stopped innovating (some people may argue that they never innovated, but rather took the innovations of others). So I have little hope that anything from MS will be exciting.