Comment But Microsoft does not innovate (Score 1) 141
The Boycott Micro$oft has an ongoing contest for people to suggest things that Microsoft has actually invented. So far, this list includes "Microsoft BOB" and "The Talking Paper Clip".
Microsoft buys, borrows, or steals the innovations of others. (Even their original "cash cow" was bought from someone else.) When this fails to produce the desired results, they will kill the competition by, for instance, integrating the browser into their OS as an "essential feature". Microsoft may also do it with the "embrace and extend" or some of the other things they are trying to do to Linux. Microsoft will even try to quash press reports of their activities.
When the court ordered Microsoft to remove MS Internet Explorer (a name which they misappropriated from someone then eventually bought) from MS Windows, Microsoft broke the OS to do it. During discovery, one of the government's experts provided a way to do it. By the time it came time to demonstrate it in court, Microsoft had changed MS Windows so that it the removal program would no longer work.
But none of this behavior is innovative either.
