Re: Just a question:
Has Microsoft done ANYTHING original (other than Bob and Clippy)?
A few examples do come to mind:
* drag and drop
* the taskbar, the toolbar
* ClearType
* scroll-wheel mice
* SideWinder Dual Strike, SideWinder Freestyle Pro (not successful, but definitely original)
* Surface (the original one, not the laptop)
* DirectX
More-recent innovations like the Ribbon or the Tiled UI have also been original, but it's so much easier to do something no one else has done if you don't mind it being abysmally bad.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
