Gosh this thread is awesome. I like MS' operating systems. The only thing I don't like about Microsoft is Xbox and Internet Explorer. Just because Chrome is getting popular doesn't mean it's the end of the world for MS. And many people I know run both Windows and Ubuntu or OSX so really, MS is fine.

Laughed my ball off.

Oh and I own chicken soup stock.

MS has a few smartphones using its browser, but its biggest holding in phones are regular phones, not the high end smartphones.    This could give google a stephold to move up to PC operating systems, especially when it holds a few advantages over windows, like price and speed, size of the OS in gigs needed being a minor advantage.  

Also, to everybody taking my argument as far as it could go saying that MS is doomed in sarcasm, that isn't true.  Instead, it would be quite reasonable to assume that MS is entering a stage where their profit margins will be lower than what we've been having from them.  

browser that MS gets advertising revenue from, phone OS, MS Office as openoffice has 20% marketshare in some european countries now,  bing, and netbook OS are all on the downswing

All i know is, they got the best advertisement. I Bet we can all agree on that. 

their os is going downhill too, they are already palying catchup with ubuntu, and ubuntu is coded by community and distributed for free.  now that we have reached the physical limit in the amount of transistors that we can add to one board computer components will drop in price a lot faster than they have been in recent times.  predictions have been that windows will start to be 15-20% of the cost of all computer within the next few year (it already is ~20% the cost of most computers sold).

when that happens theres a lot of predictions saying linux will reclaim a lot of territory that windows had taken from them

Ok,..my ban friend, read please...

sony new walkman use              Microsft  wma.

sony vaio use                             Microsft  windows 7.

somemany sonyphones use        Microsft Movil IE and msn messerger.

sony blu ray use                          Microsoft cop - woned VC1 ,codec.

And....

Apple ipop  kill                             your sony walkman poltable music hardware and market.

Apple iphone kill                          your sony ericksson fhones sales .

Apple IPHONE is killing                 your psp multimedia feactures.

Geothots ,Matrix ,harry potters books ,the lord of rin movies ,kinect ,lady gaga and Stars wars saga   are amazings.........

I am having trouble comprehending what you are talking about.

um any serious business uses ms office, I think MS will be fine. Android aint big enough to scare anybody yet with pc os's especially with toshy most likely always gonna side with MS. Also explain how MS keeps making larger and larger profits...

This myth is BUSTED!

Ubuntu making inroads, Seriously???  I've heard this crap for 10 years and I still don't see these big inroads happening.  Vista was a chance for Os's like Ubuntu to make their move, it just didn't happen (and in Ubuntu's case likely never will).

in the last 8 years it has seen growth in 92 of 96 months.  you know what also didnt happen during vista? people using it.  during vistas peak marketshare (of about 18%) windows xp had about 70% marketshare still.  infact windows xp marketshare never fell below 70% until after windows 7 released (and is still about 50% lol)  microsofts os buisness hasnt been going good