... dont seem to love each other's company. If innovative skills were any indication, Microsoft's pulse has long gone silent. As Guy Kawasaki would put it, if it were daisy wheel printer company, it would think innovation means adding Helvetica in 24 points. 

Or if Microsoft were just Microsoft, it would set out to follow someone else's curve. 

May be its gotta do with the fact that the bigger you get, the fewer risks you take? Which leads me to the next question - is there an optimum level to which a business entity should grow, beyond which it would only hurt itself?