Microsoft’s Ability to Innovate Supported by Strongest Patent Portfolio
Periodically I’ll hear attacks on Microsoft and the company’s inability to innovate … often times the accusations are outright suggestions that Microsoft can only “copy” what others are doing in the marketplace and then through some “evil means” – this is usually where the monopoly stuff is thrown in for good measure – leverages their power to drive adoption. To counter this point of view, I thought this recent article was a good read … hard to argue with facts.
“Acquiring patents is seen as a way to gauge a company's ability to create and develop new technologies, so having a healthy patent pipeline tends to bode well for a company's ability to continue releasing relevant technologies that its customers will find useful.”
Link: http://www.cio.com/article/473922/Survey_Microsoft_has_strongest_patent_portfolio?source=home_ln
