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Microsoft is in the forefront of earning money, Not innovating. The majority of major innovations and developments in technology have come from developers working for the US military in various Universities, they just can't or are not allowed admit it.

I'm afraid post #2 is vastly incorrect. Microsoft works with universities a lot more than other companies, even ones like Google. If you have a look at the number of papers published in top tier conferences or journals with work from Microsoft or Microsoft sponsored projects then you will know what you said is just not true.

What I think you are pointing at is what they "release" as products. The fact is a lot of raw research that you see published in the aforementioned papers are far from being "sexy" and even farther away from being profitable.

Actually post 2 is mostly correct. Microsoft are reknowned for their lack of innovation in both the public space and the business space.

Microsoft also do not contribute to any work produced in any university. Instead they give a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the money that they make so that those universities can do their stuff on a very small budget and Microsoft under the agreement of the "loan" can have almost full marketting rights.

Those universities cannot make profit out of the things that are created, so all Microsoft are doing is a (fairly) new kind of outsourcing, where the 'service provider' if that is what we can call the university has to pay the money back into Microsoft somehow.

That isn't helping the University at all, it partially helps the students until they can never set eyes on their code again and microsoft as usual take all the claim and say they have the best innovation team in the world.

To be honest, this world would be better without Microsoft after this depression because pure capitalism has created this mess... and Microsoft are up there with Exxon, GM and Walmart when it comes to carrying out total-capitalism. Afterall, would the world be in debt if the Β£500B spent in Windows licences fee's had never been paid and instead Linux was boss? And what of the Β£500B in office licence fee's? IO would certainly love to know the figures of money they have pocketed from the rest of world in their 'support costs'.... the last I checked it was Β£40 per problem! Haven't Microsoft ever heard of customer care?

Actually post 3 is quite correct, microsoft is not like it used to be. A lot of research is done at university, after that is microsoft realized it was not attracting enough of the 'Clever people'.

All this I hate microsoft is trash! I used to do it, but after a while I realized they are like any other company! In it for the money! If you think anything else you really are just kidding yourself!!!!

Why not check out the microsoft research website to see if microsoft are into innovation?

www.research.micrsoft.com