Analyzing Microsoft

Barry Ritholtz sees an emperor without many clothes. He contends that legal expertise and business acumen in Microsoft's early days was responsible for the company's growth and reputation. Microsoft was not a technological innovator then nor is it one now. In Ritholtz's words, "Microsoft has missed just about every major trend in computing over the past decade. They missed Search, they missed MP3 players, had to buy webmail, missed user generated content, maps,blogging, online video, cloud computing, location sensitive apps,  smart phones, Apps, texting, social networking, tablets, micro-blogging (ie, Twitter)."