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You know what I want to see from Microsoft?  Innovation.  Microsoft has the resources to do a lot of neat things and while I’m regularly made fun of, by friends, for being a Microsoft fan boy, they’ve really disappointed me this go around.

They should be hammering companies like nVidia to have stable, feature-complete drivers ready for their $600 flag-ship video cards upon release.

They should be the first to release features like desktop composition, 3D accelerated GUIs, etc.  They shouldn’t have to play catch-up with Apple or Linux or anyone else.  It’s sad, really.  The best-funded company in the world has stopped innovating and brining new things to the table before anyone else.  Now, they just follow.

Of course, there are exceptions — the xbox brand, anyone?  They’ve done an amazing job with it, even if they’re not yet profitable.  There’s a lot of “neato” behind it, brand and content integration, etc.

My challenge to MS is to use all of the talent and resources they have — stop following and start leading.  Start innovating in the finest sense.  I suppose we’ll see what happens in the coming years, I suppose, as the Google-Microsoft-Yahoo hate-love-triangle heats up.