Microsoft tends to play a zero sum game where it will innovate like mad until it dominates a market sector, then let it stagnate until threatened, having moved

Microsoft tends to play a zero sum game where it will innovate like mad until it dominates a market sector, then let it stagnate until threatened, having moved on to other areas. Anyone who operates a web server has seen a noticeable shift away from Microsoft platforms (both OS and browser) in the last couple of years. This has spurred the recent IE development, and I don't expect Microsoft to settle on Windows 7 when it's so much easier to "just buy a Mac" and get everything a consumer needs or wants in a computer these days. I have shelves of Windows software sitting right next to me as I type, and I just realized I don't use any of it anymore. Moving on wasn't hard, and Microsoft's promise of backwards compatibility was uneven and ultimately unnecessary. They have the resources to retool overnight and release a streamlined OS, which is what they need to do to get back in the game, when they decide they're losing.