No matter what you may think of Microsoft and its products, it remains one of the Seattle area’s still-thriving corporate giants. But for how long? Former MS VP Dick Brass (no puns about the name, please) believes it might not be for long, due to fatal bureaucratic stagnation:

Despite having one of the largest and best corporate laboratories in the world, and the luxury of not one but three chief technology officers, the company routinely manages to frustrate the efforts of its visionary thinkers.