> <http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/
> 2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm?section=money_latest>
>
> Microsoft takes on the free world
Not surprising. Monopolies have shelf lives, and MSFT is a decade past its prime. All its attempts at expanding its PC monopoly have crashed and burned. Cellphones: nope. Servers: nope. Its videogame biz has managed to lose $4 billion, while barely denting behemoths Sony and Nintendo.
It's Mister Softie's "surge" moment. There won't be a collapse, just slow grinding death at the hands of the open source insurgency.
-- DRR