Meanwhile... what happened to Microsoft once its charismatic founder left? Balmer's been a belly-full of fail year after year. Lately, he's especially impressively failing. About the only parts of the company that aren't failing are the parts he disliked so much he didn't want to talk or deal with them directly (XBox for example). I wonder, again, what losing Jobs will do now that Cook has proven himself to be not quite as charismatic as the founder?