Your point about IBM confuses me. Are you saying that Microsoft is going to be like IBM (a slow decline for another decades, followed by a huge boom ten years l

Your point about IBM confuses me. Are you saying that Microsoft is going to be like IBM (a slow decline for another decades, followed by a huge boom ten years later)? Or that Microsoft should follow IBM's example by giving up on the consumer market? There's many ways to make a buck -- Apple has chosen one, IBM another, and neither is obviously better than the other.