Microsoft&#x27;s independent innovations of the last decade are the kind the average person doesn&#x27;t really want or need. They&#x27;re making a skype translator... fantastic... but the market for that is still pretty niche.<p>When Google released maps&#x2F;street view, or apple announced the iphone, those were the kinds of things that built excitement because they were big ideas, and it was the kind of future we wanted to live in. Microsoft doesn&#x27;t really do that, and from this article they still don&#x27;t get it.