"If Microsoft focused on a Photoshop clone, that focus would have been lost from somewhere else"

huh?

So all that time they were working on silverlight, there was no one working on xbox. or office. or ie. or windows vista/7/xp-patches. or sharepoint. or asp.net. or sql server. or iis. or c#. or linq. or ford sync tech. or metro. or windows phone 7.

Please...

had they wanted to get in to the photoshop realm, they would have.