Lingyis on 25 January 2009
microsoft has always been good at copying. they also have a track record of crushing the pioneer on their attempts--largely because they can throw globs and globs of money, or through anti-competitive measures. netscape, wordperfect, lotus, java, the list goes on. even the Xbox is beginning to look that way, if only in the US. and i'm sure the next generation, XBox will copy whatever they can from the Wii and PS3.
indeed, this policy is called "embrace, extend, extinguish".
will they succeed? i won't bet against them. the only notable exception so far has been search--they're nowhere close to beating google. but that's precisely because they didn't perceive a threat until google was in an unassailable position.
the Wii is an epidemic.
