IBM Leads with Amount of Patents.

So If you're saying that there's a company who's fiscally irresponsible, the signs point to Microsoft. There aren't millions of big blue's that IBM had to subsidise, but every single Xbox in American homes are subsidised. Just like the Auto Industry dug itself with subdising all of it's labor, and lack of integral innovation, Microsoft is diggin itself a hole including the Mobile O.S. being suspended from a winter release, Bing's failure, and MS 7's upcoming competition with Google Chrome. Not to mention Microsoft being found to have stolen MS. Office from a Canadian tech company last month in a Federal patent court. IBM is a serious player. Microsoft is and always will be a joke in the tech sector. Do you realise that IBM is currently a 130.00 per market share, and Microsoft is at 30. (Which is pretty much it's top share value in over a decade? Microsofts highest value was 60 (Only double of what it is today) and that was for a single month of Jan. 1999 When Y2k was at it's height. Microsoft is a dog without tricks. If anyone tries to claim the Xbox saga as profitable, you would be mistaken since they've subsidised its entire market.