Dick Brass, vice president at Microsoft from '97 to '04, is wondering -- out loud ... in a Times Op-Ed -- why the software giant, "no longer brings us the future, whether it's tablet computers
like the iPad, e-books like Amazon's Kindle, smartphones like the BlackBerry and iPhone, search engines like Google, digital music systems like iPod and iTunes or popular Web services like Facebook
and Twitter."
In part, Brass -- who takes credit for "largely" failing to make tablet PCs and e-readers happen at Microsoft a decade ago -- suggests that the company's creative failure
comes from placing "too much faith in people like me." The result? "Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator."
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