I’m not ready to write an obituary for Microsoft, but from what I’ve seen lately, things don’t look promising. This is not wishful thinking. I’ve been a fan of its products for decades and am writing this column in Microsoft Word on my Windows 7 PC, which I like.
The company should be in a celebratory mood. It just launched its new PC and mobile operating systems and for the first time started selling its own computer hardware — the Surface Windows RT tablet. Its hardware partners are coming out with all sorts of new PCs featuring Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft finally has a tablet device to compete with Apple’s iPad and the myriad of Android tablets.
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