What has microsoft ever done for us?

This post on the Oracle and Open Source blog points to a Sydney Morning Herald article bemoaning Microsoft's lack of innovation, despite the quality of their research staff and their huge R&D budget.


This reminded me of an conversation a couple of weeks ago when I was challenged to come up with something microsoft had actually invented. I failed.



Without getting into an anti-Microsoft rant, can anyone think of any?

The best I can come up with at the moment are wheel mouse and ODBC