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Not sure why you are getting up-votes for this. It isn't adding anything to the conversation other than obvious Microsoft bashing.

The Pixel Sense technology is obviously quite new, so I'm not sure how they were supposed to put it in anything eons ago.

As far as Microsoft not shipping... Well they ship more stuff than a lot of people. True that their tablet and phone offerings are not as good as the competition (yet), but that isn't through not shipping, it's through creating products that was out of touch with consumer expectations.

In the phone world, over the lifetime of the window Mobile, they've probably been quite successful. In tablets, less so, but still they have shipped numerous times over the past decade.

Just saying.

[samratjp]

Microsoft didn't capitalize on Touch-based computing (a la Surface - didn't imply about pixel sense at all) when they had the chance before.

Microsoft labs has a lot of crazy cool stuff, but they don't see daylight in the hands of the consumer. There's something to be said about that.

The point is that they missed the boat, but shipped late.

"Gates's admission that he looked at the iPhone, unveiled three years ago in January 2007 and which went on sale in June that year, and thought that "Microsoft didn't aim high enough" is a startling revelation from the man who drove the company to focus on mobile." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/12/ipad-bill-g... - that says it all!