kaled - 6:56 pm on Oct 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

Backward compatibility is not an innovation, and it wasn't new even at the time. A hardware abstraction layer/driver model wasn't new either. The Amiga certainly had this feature and the Archimedes probably did too.

One genuine, useful innovation that can be attributed to Microsoft is all I asked for, and the best suggestions we have so far are the taskbar and the bundling together of various office apps - it's really not looking good for MS.

If we were having this discussion about Apple, there would be many good suggestions.

Kaled.