The Kinect sold many units quickly because so many people already had Xboxes or Windows gaming PCs, and it was relatively cheap. It's since been discontinued.

Azure is popular due to all the corporates moving their application hosting and data storage off on-premise servers to the cloud.

Neither of these products/platforms has led/is leading to whole new categories of products/companies being created, which is the specific context in which PG was suggesting MS was "dead".

FWIW, arguably the biggest game-changing innovation in gaming in the past 10 years has been Twitch, which was a YC company.

> smuglord

> ignormaous

You don't need insults if you have solid points.