... Microsoft's profit incentive ... Exactly right: it's in Microsoft best interest to not to enter the "Post-PC Era". However, I have often wondered when wil

... Microsoft's profit incentive ... Exactly right: it's in Microsoft best interest to not to enter the "Post-PC Era". However, I have often wondered when will Microsoft be irrelevant? Will there be a technology world without Microsoft (or a vastly different Microsoft)? Or will Microsoft's intrenched position in the corporate (and enterprise) environments ensure its continued (and varied) success? People "accept" Microsoft products in a work environment largely because of inertia and a distaste of change. Very good arguments can be made whether or not there are just-as-good or better alternatives, but I believe that organizations can thrive without Microsoft technologies. And maybe the inertia and distaste of change is a generational phenomena, because I cannot imagine a future world where my children are using Microsoft products. When I was growing up, I learned how to program using a Commodore 64 (and the "cool kids" had beepers) and then Microsoft was a blessing of sorts since it was accessible and affordable. But now we truly have technological advances in terms of hardware and software, so why will our future accept technology based in the past? (Really, how much of Windows 7 isn't based on the old Win32 APIs?) As a casual observation, it seems to me that the battle for corporate e-mail will be the next major "battle ground"...