i am actually not down on microsoft at all myself... I wrote critically of them on this particular subject not because i dislike them as a company, i dont... but simply because i am utterly unimpressed with most people's so called "vision" for the future... i am constantly amazed how people can go to the best schools & universities & have all the wealth & authority to act with big companies like this... and yet utterly fail to be impressive (so far as i am concerned)... even steve jobs didnt really ever blow me away, and I am actually stumped as to why so many people were so impressed, except in so much as that i can imagine compared to what everyone else was doing, yes he was amazing... but personally i think i could do a lot better job than all these guys put together if i had their resources & opportunities at my disposal... and you can call me arrogant or whatever you want for saying that if you like, but i am just saying it because its true... in fact i think most of our achievements as a species in every field of endeavour are way short of what we are capable of, and there are many reasons for that (its another debate & subject entirely)... but the point is, please dont think i am just being hard on MS, i am not.