Days gone by former Microsoft VP Dick Brass wrote an view piece for the New York Times calling the software massive a "clumsy, mutually respectful innovator."

Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft corporate VP of communications, responded (and disagreeing) in the official Microsoft blog by touching upon points brought up by Brass.

"At the maximum level, we think about novelty in relative to its capability to have a positive crash in the world. For Microsoft, it is not enough to simply have a good idea, or a great idea, or even a cool idea," Shaw wrote. "We gauge our work by its broad crash."

To emphasize his tip, Shaw said that ClearType now ships with each copy of Windows and is put in on around a billion PCs about the world.

"This is a huge instance of innovation with crash: innovation at scale," Shaw states. "Now, you could quarrel that this should have occurred quicker. And sometimes it does. But for a company whose products touch vast numbers of people, what matters is novelty at scale, not just modernism at speed."

Shaw sharp to Microsoft's OneNote product as being "fundamentally shaped for the Tablet and is a key part of workplace today."

Shaw also discarded Brass's appraisal of that Xbox being an equal candidate in the game console business: "Fact is, Xbox 360 was the first high-definition console. It was the initial to digitally bring games, music, TV shows and cinema in 1080p high meaning. The first to bring Facebook and Twitter to the alive room."