re: Android will be a billion dollar business, for Microsoft

Microsoft has had many innovations in the last couple years, just not all of them are widely public or "exciting" for the run of the mill consumer.

Kinect broke records left and right for consumer adoption and is contantly being used in scenerios' outside of gaming. Real world applications for a motion system where the device cost under 200$ are endless.

SharePoint and .NET have changed the world as far as workflow and custom line of business application creation making it easier for companies to home grow process and applications.

There have also been massive innovations with SQL server making it scalable in as a parallel data warehouse on par with Oracle at a quarter of the price.

And also Lync is another that is storming the enterprise. That ability to collaborate and perform video conferencing over SIP instead of expensive H. protocols allows many companies to enter into onpremise collaboration for a quarter of what they would have spent in the past.

These are just a few, but also alot of MS innovation is patented then used by other companies.

Windows Azure is HUGE for cloud based computing. It's so huge, guess where Apple is hosting its' ICloud solution?