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Re:Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback by ethanbond on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @05:41PM (#9848290)
Microsoft seems to be perfectly successful to me, no?

R&D, by virtue of being R&D, rarely makes it to the market in a recognizable form. My guess is that the lessons learned there certainly have been applied to their real profit centers.

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Re:Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback by frandroid on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @07:01PM (#9848700)
> it's not like like don't succeed on those products

I acknowledged that they are successful. But they aren't successful in creating new markets; they succeed in invading existing ones.

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Re:Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback by Someone1234 on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @05:59PM (#9848390)
Plus their massive patent portfolio has definitely paid off in various ways.

PS - I don't personally like software patents, but you cannot deny they make money for research-based organisations.

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Re:Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback by frandroid on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @07:03PM (#9848710)
The patent portfolio is a good point, I'll concede that.
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