Agreed. It's similar to comparing Intel to ARM. Outside of business the OS is becoming less important to the consumer than it used to be. IMHO the key for Microsoft is maintaining its hold on the corporate market. In that regard the key product is not Windows but Office.
That's right, Office is everywhere. And they use that to leverage Sharepoint, Exchange and other systems. There's no shame in being number 1 in the corporate world and number 4 or 5 in the consumer market. :)
Well, it is a cycle you know? Microsoft in the 90's looked as impossible to beat down as IBM looked back in the 70's and IBM still exists and it is strong, but is not longer that unbeatable beast that used to be.
I wonder if, in a few years, I will be writing this statement again but comparing Apple/Google with Facebook/Twitter/Whatever-is-coming.
