One thing that doesn't seem to come through in all these pundit articles and internet discussions is how fantastically successful MS are. They've survived seve

One thing that doesn't seem to come through in all these pundit articles and internet discussions is how fantastically successful MS are. They've survived several paradigms over decades in a business where most didn't. Most years (including the last few) they make more money than the year before. They have a bunch of very big businesses that make big money. Compare that to Google. Google do lots of cool things: self driving cars, webmail. glass, android. Cool stuff. Still, almost all their money comes from search/adwords/adsense. They have lots of faults. I really dislike Windows. But, they have a lot of good traits too that others should emulate. A big one is stubborn survivey-ness. Just because an MS thing is still lame 2 years after it was launched doesn't mean it won't make it. They can stick at lame products until they make them decent. Bottom line I guess is that MS are survivors. I expect them to survive.