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Like what was said before you look at Microsoft as a developer. When really you should look at them as a commodity of small companies all contributing to one goal of producing software under the name of Microsoft. Microsoft is the parent company of so many smaller companies that have contributed massive amounts of inovation to the industry and with out the backing of that money they would have never come around. For instance as much as I detest FrontPage and the extentions it has given everybody and their mother the ability to create and publish websites. Lets not forget the innovation of marketing and user friendly interfaces which facilitates the growth of the computer industry and having a computer in "everyones" home. The problem is that you are thinking of innovation in a small box that only deals with coding. Basically there is no innovation anymore if you just think of it that way because all that these "inovaters" are doing is improving on a "perceived problem".

"http://slicker.sourceforge.net is a new style taskbar for kde in development which is innovation.. resier 4 is innovation. the list of innovations aint minute im sure there are people here who can expand this list."

If you actually look at this they aren't inovating anything they are just improving a process on "perceived problems". If you want to take it back the real innovater was Xerox with the windowing environment. Now that was an inovation not just changing the look of menu bar like slicker is doing.

Also it was funny that you mentioned just a new interface and a new file system, because if I remember right Microsoft is doing that with Longhorn and WinFS. So I guess Microsoft is innovating, despite popular beleif.