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Originally Posted by pilotbob
You really need to catch up because that is far from the truth.
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Microsoft doesn't necessarily copy Apple, but little if any innovation comes from in-house. There's an entire industry of startup companies that develop an idea they can't afford to bring to market and hope to be bought out by Microsoft. Sometimes they copy (Xerox Star), sometimes they steal (Stacker), a lot of times they buy (just about everything else) but what they rarely do is create.
Further, Apple has a reputation (deserved or undeserved) for creativity. Microsoft has a reputation (likewise, deserved or undeserved) for no creativity whatsoever. So in the context of the original comment -- Microsoft losing its reputation for creativity -- whether or not that reputation reflects reality, Microsoft has very little reputation in that area to lose.