Yes, you just saw thru the evil <g> Microsoft plot to write more and more inefficient bloatware that requires more MIPS and more storage and sells more computers and more comples OSs and apps. The latest marketing initiative is the new Microsoft OS that secures your machine and "protects" the intellectual property of anything digital. It too requires all new PC hardware and all new OS and applications SW from Redmond. Gee.

But I would not dismiss The Valley as a whole here. Plenty of new innovation going on there. It's not just PCs.

Hint: Think - The Mesh.

-p (admitted microsoft/hollywood cynic)