Dom

UK

sysadmin

Wow! I am so impressed by MS inovation departement! A pocke size device that let's you listen to music recorded in digital format. Am sure nobody though of that before!
Mind you we are still at stage 1
Stage 2 is: sale a device as user friendly as the Ipod (am sure the MS "copy" dept can handle this) but much cheaper, undercutting the exiting market.
Stage 3 when the market has been killed and we have a monopoly (this has been taken for by proprietary formats), crank the prices back up.

Frankly, why do I have this impression of the "deja vu". I know I rememeber some past history example:

1st Apple cam up with a good GUI, next
MS came up with guess what... a GUI, the MS "inovation" dept having moved the tasks bar from top to the bottom of the screen.

Or IBM showed a watch running Linux and a couple of years later MS "invented" one as well.

As the Apple Ipod the question I was pondering was not if but when MS would
once againg steal some else's idea.