Console market You have to wonder what Microsoft is thinking about it's X-Box. Until Microsoft's desktop monopoly helps it enter the console market, it's as if someone lent me $5B to compete with against the PS2. And despite what dumb business journalists think, the Borg's cash hoard does not give it any special advantage--as a MSFT shareholder, I want to see the Beast give its money to me through share buybacks or profitable businesses, not squander it competing against Sony and Nintendo. Just because Microsoft has money doesn't mean it can waste it.