Microsoft has seen what Apple and others have done,
  and have made something along the same line,
  but daring and new.

Daring and new is fine, but in this case daring and new is not enought, it must be useable too. Too many copycats failed for the very simple reason: copying the superficial aspects and having no idea about the essence why the things they copy work in the first place.

  Microsoft is investing in the right type of
  future oriented technologies

I'd say that one of the killer apps for iPhone is Mobile Safari. Why one cannot argue about MS effort, sorry, but anything they can put on the device won't stand a chance compared to WebKit browsers.

  Microsoft has a huge marketing and development budget
  to push anything they want

That may be the problem, not a solution. Thinking that marketing can fix a bad product, or thinking that innovation is proportional to money thrown on the problem. Usually it is the other way around: restrictions sprak innovation.

  Microsoft has integrated its programming languages across all platforms,
  implying a huge number of devs will program for their platforms

This is two sided also. Brought back memories of Win shareware.