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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Relique du Madde" data-source="post: 5582579" data-attributes="member: 42169">To some extent Microsoft has created some interesting concepts but they themselves haven't capitalized on them.  For instance, look at the Kinect. That device was originally created that as a game peripheral and in itself was used as an interface with the XBox, but instead of capitalizing on it in for use with Windows, they decided to stand back and hackers come up with new uses for the Kinect in both the fields of robotics and in interface design.Unfortunately, MS tends to either kill interesting projects or let them sit on the sidelines.True, HOWEVER, remember that countries love throwing Anti-Trust lawsuits at MS whenever they try coming up with new services before Apple or any other company is doing it.  If MS tried to create an app store or itunes before Apple they would have been shut down or had the service sold off to the highest bidder.  Instead they had to work on similar services in markets where they did not have saturation, ie video games consoles.As a result they made a trade off and instead of  focusing their efforts with app store, they decided to focus their efforts on X-Box Live gamer store and making suites.</blockquote>