Internet Explorer was created long after Mozilla, because they saw gold,
Long after? Most of the original browsers were based on Mosaic (on which Netscape's founder worked). Internet Explorer 1.0 hit about a year after Navigator to coincide with the launch of Windows 95.
MSN added blogs *after* all major services did because they saw gold.
Blogs are for narcissists. They'll be the eventual death of real journalism (as opposed to editorial and gonzo journalism) if people take them too seriously. ;-)
Microsoft got into the internet after everyone else because they saw gold.
What does "got into the Internet" mean? It's not an exclusive club. Like most large technology companies, Microsoft was "on" the Internet as soon as it served to further their business activities. That happened as early as 1991, but it was most likely before that, as they needed a way to bridge communication between email platforms, newsgroups, and proprietary information services like Compuserve and Genie. It's been too long for me to remember clearly, but I'm pretty sure Microsoft--again, like most technology companies--had a Gopher site before HTTP and the world wide web took off.
They are not an innovator. MS WIndows was created from Bill Gates vision of Apple OS.
That's possible. And the Macintosh was created from Xerox's vision of the GUI. And the GUI is based on emulating real world interaction. So what?
Microsoft has consistently been blind to technology innovation, they concentrated on producing an OS that ran on any OEM hardware, that's there success, I can go out, buy a bunch of pieces of equipment from different manufactures, put it together and run MS Windows on it.
That's actually IBM's fault. If they hadn't published the source code to their ROM BIOS, the personal computer market as we know it today might not have happened. We might even still be running Amigas for real world, every day tasks. ;-) More likely, we'd be using terminals and connecting to an IBM mainframe and paying per keystroke. (And as someone else already pointed out, that's the direction we're headed with web-based services and service-oriented products.)
We can blame Microsoft for the current notion of software licensing, though. Before that, you actually bought software, which included the software's source code. The OSS movement is sort of reversing that, but licenses like the GPL severely limit how you can use and implement source code.
