"R&D expenditure ... Microsoft leads the way at US$8.1B"
Maybe I am too cynical but how much of this is going to be true "new ideas" - R&D is usually something you can write off to tax - these "software giants" are also accounting giants - I bet if you ever saw the detail they would be claiming as R&D all sorts of things the smaller players never thought you would get away with ...
James Horsley
Workflow Consulting Limited