If MS think they can control the web like they control hard drives and op software dvds, well we already know, that's quite ignorant of them.
Watch Google too, in under a decade they got mobile phones, camera's, cloud software, youtube (television basically) and many other technologies off the ground. They could easily surpass MS in another decade.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
