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wait what???? MS business is mostly R&D beside changing a skin every 5 years tweaking office they have nothing else to do than R&D..... they employ some of the brightest mind in the software development world and hardware integration.....no I don't know the size of the game division but a company like MS doesn't work by division only.... but more by project and interation of project between the different sector they have.... the XB playing video games waas just an excuse for MS to get in the people's living room before the family desktop completely dies out..... without saying that you do realise MS has their own campus on top of their elite selected employees..... if you want a pissing contest MS is a watter canon to turn off oil rig fires and nintendo is a garden hose.... even if it's the best garden hose in the world it is no match to a water canon

So microsoft should be getting us to Mars and inventing the time machine too, right? Let's bring it back to the real world- name something that microsoft developed from the ground-up through in-house r&d, which was radically different, unique and better than what competitors were making? Just name something....

i think xbox live might be a possibility, can you think of anything else? kinect was developed by another company, then purchased by microsoft, so i don't think that counts as in-house r&d....