scobleizer wrote:
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Q: On the blogs there are those who say that Microsoft doesn’t innovate anymore. Can you give us some examples of where you see innovation?

A: I think we’re doing a ton of innovative work. If you take a look at the stuff we’re doing with interactive television I think it is super innovative. I think the Tablet stuff has been a little slower to take off than we had hoped, but I think it’s super innovative stuff.


I hear this quite a bit about Tablets, but rarely is it ever backed up with a concrete example. I'll grant that some of the hardware is pretty cool -- *love* this, for instance -- but Microsoft doesn't make the hardware, so they can't take any credit for that.

As far as Window XP Tablet PC Edition, there are precious few things that make it any different than standard XP, and I'm not sure they qualify as innovative in most cases anyway. Handwriting recognition is certainly nothing new. The Ink input system is OK, but Apple's Inkwell is similar, just to name one example (yes, I realize Apple doesn't make a Tablet). OneNote is a very good application,  and MS should be justifiably proud of it, but that isn't even  Tablet-specific. So what are all these great things going on the the Tablet world?