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Originally Posted by Xanthe
There's innovation and then there's merely change that pretends to innovate. There's been too much of the latter and not enough of the former under these later "Ballmer years".
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Microsoft has always been known for lack of innovation. What real innovation are you thinking of?
I suppose there are lots of small innovations in each Microsoft release. Windows 8 couldn't boot so fast without innovations. But big innovations enabling new classes of products, such as the the Von Neumann architecture, the microprocessor, the mouse, the touchscreen, and eInk, do not come from end-user oriented companies like Microsoft and Apple.
As for Krugman's idea that Microsoft has a more secure future than Apple, I agree. Many corporate applications which automate Microsoft Office would thus be quite expensive to port to Linux, Mac, or a browser. So Microsoft has stronger lock-in.