Microsoft is doomed thread, unfortunately it does not work when you still count your profit in billions.
Windows 7 will be huge and Microsoft can expect a huge bounce in profit through this product alone.
Office 2007 is about to be replaced by 2010 so again expect more profit admittedly it does have more competition but Office 2007 and 2010 are much better products than OpenOffice.
Zune is still being heavily developed and it success or failure are far from certain.
IE 8 has stemmed the flow currently but the European adoption of a non browser version of Windows 7 will see that eroded certainly in Europe. Although currently I would recommend you install IE 8 as you still need a Microsoft browser in your product and you need to patch then the installed version plus your extra web browsers which I bet most of you do not.
Microsoft are actually improving on its search capabilities and Bing has reported some good uptake.
All in all I expect Microsoft to post some impressive results in 2010 due to this being a big software year. 2009 is at the end of lost of the software products so a dip is to be expected.
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