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drbaltazar 
in MY view!i believe ms complicated things for no reason!the market just needed wrist kinect ,sell us that you would still have made your profit (probably way more)and everybody on the planet will buy it!
true ms was pressured into doing wrsit kinect because of another company that is close to release a matchbox unit that will empower the harry potter in all of us to wave our magic to control our computer with our hands and finger!
Your point about Microsoft lagging behind is 100% correct. That is generally what happens when a company gets too big and relies too heavily on normal customers for their income. But not all of Microsoft is like that as you can see the X-Box division is heavily profitable and pushes itself forward a lot.
For China going to Linux. Yes and no. We are seeing large Linux sales for PC's in China, but that is only because it's cheaper and they put pirated Windows on. We don't have an accurate user base but we do know that Linux is about 1.8% of WW usage so it's very small. While China will put out it's official Linux distribution soon, it will likely not do anything. Even with 40M users in China, Linux still won't matter. Look at the slow adoption rates of online banking in China. They only support Internet Explorer correctly and leave out Chrome and Firefox. People will be forced to use whatever the tools support.
As for their MIPS processors coming out soon. Sure. They are nice and will likely dominate low cost mobile options. But even in China, name brand sells. So unless Samsung and Apple switch over, it likely won't matter. Samsung is currently #1 in the smart phone market in China with Lenovo as #2. People want sexy. They want the name of Qualcomm and TI and other famous names. It's just like Intel Inside goes a lot longer with consumers than AMD. It's just the reality of the market.
