Quote from Trader666:
LOLOLOL!!!! Tell that to the IEEE which spans 150 countries and has the most members of any technical professional organization in the world because it's their scorecard.
As I said, who has more credibility... the IEEE or an ignorant, jaded and jealous loser on ET who has reading comprehension problems and no critical reasoning ability? Hmmmmm... 
To the pompous BS artist:
I understand your lack of understanding comprehension in the english language may impede your ability to reason, but that is unfortunate.
What has Microsoft innovated?
Give me one product, one "innovation" that Microsoft has created that was not previously implemented in similar forms by other corporations.
The fact that MS has patents, does not imply that other companies have not had patents INFRINGED by MS. MS does not have a record of no misconduct regarding its patents and products.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation
Microsoft has also fought numerous legal battles against private companies. The most prominent ones are against:
Alcatel-Lucent, which won US$1.52 billion in a lawsuit which alleged that Microsoft had infringed its patents on playback of audio files. This ruling was overturned in a higher court[31]
Apple Inc. (known as Apple Computer, Inc. at the time), which accused Microsoft in the late 1980s of copying the "look and feel" of the graphical user interface of Apple's operating systems. The courts ruled in favor of Microsoft in 1994. Another suit by Apple accused Microsoft, along with Intel and the San Francisco Canyon Company, in 1995 of knowingly stealing several thousand lines of QuickTime source code in an effort to improve the performance of Video for Windows.[32][33][34][35] After a threat to withdraw support for Office for Mac,[36][37] this lawsuit was ultimately settled in 1997. Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer the default browser over Netscape, and Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office and other software for the Mac for the next 5 years, purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock, and made a quiet payoff estimated to be in the US$500 million-$2 billion range.[38][39][40][41]
AOL, on behalf of its Netscape division. Netscape (as an independent company) also was involved in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust suit.
Be Inc., which accused Microsoft of exclusionary and anticompetitive behavior intended to drive Be out of the market. Be even offered to license its Be Operating System (BeOS) for free to any PC vendors who would ship it pre-installed, but the vendors declined due to what Be believes were fears of pricing retaliation from Microsoft: by raising the price of Microsoft Windows for one particular PC vendor, Microsoft could price that vendor's PCs out of the market.[42]
Bristol Technology Inc., which accused Microsoft illegally withheld Windows source code and used its dominant position with Windows to move into other markets[43][44][45]. A ruling later ordered Microsoft to pay $1 Million to Bristol Technologies[46].
Burst.com, which claims that Microsoft stole Burst's patented technology for delivering high speed streaming sound and video content on the internet. Also at issue in the case is a 35-week period of missing emails in the evidence Microsoft handed over to Burst which was discovered by Burst.com's lawyers. Burst accuses Microsoft of crafting a 30 day email deletion policy specifically to cover up illegal activity. Microsoft settled with the company for $60 million in exchange for an agreement to license some of the company's technologies.[47][48][49]
Eolas and University of California, which accused Microsoft of using some of its software patents in their web browser, won $521 million in court.[50]
Caldera, which accused Microsoft of having modified Windows 3.1 so that it would not run on DR DOS 6 although there was no technical reason for it not to work.[51] Some claim that Microsoft put encrypted code in five otherwise unrelated Microsoft programs in order to prevent the functioning of DR DOS in pre-releases (beta versions) of Windows 3.1.[52] Microsoft settled out-of-court for an undisclosed sum.
Opera, which accused Microsoft of intentionally making its MSN service incompatible with the Opera browser on several occasions.
Sendo, which accused Microsoft of terminating their partnership so it could steal Sendo's technology to use in Windows Smartphone 2002.[53]
Spyglass, which licensed its browser to Microsoft in return for a percentage of each sale; Microsoft turned the browser into Internet Explorer and bundled it with Windows, giving it away to gain market share but effectively destroying any chance of Spyglass making money from the deal they had signed with Microsoft; Spyglass sued for deception and won a $8 million settlement.[54]
Stac Electronics, which accused Microsoft of stealing its data compression code and using it in MS-DOS 6.[55] Microsoft eventually lost the subsequent lawsuit and was ordered by a federal court to pay roughly $120 million in compensation.[56]
Sun Microsystems, which held Microsoft in violation of contract for including a modified version of Java in Microsoft Windows that provided Windows-specific extensions to Sun's Java language; Microsoft lost this decision in court and were forced to stop shipping their Windows-specific Java Virtual Machine. Microsoft eventually ceased to include any Java Virtual Machine in Windows, and Windows users who require a Java Virtual Machine need to download the software or otherwise acquire a copy from a source other than Microsoft.
WordPerfect
Many other smaller companies have filed patent abuse and predatory practice suits against Microsoft.
You can stomp your little feet and throw a fit like a child but that patent scorecard is from the IEEE which spans 150 countries and has the most members of any technical professional organization in the world.
