Im not ready to write an obituary for Microsoft, but from what Ive seen lately, things dont look promising. This is not wishful thinking. Ive 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 Apples iPad and the myriad of Android tablets.
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