Problem is it's a very introverted company selling to markets much bigger than america with a much more modern ideal. They will either drop into place with the 21st century or fail but one things for sure windows is NOT the software that will keep this company afloat. The next 10 years you will see a totally different Microsoft in fact I can see a move for the headquarters as the rest of the world is moving forward where as the US mentality is stagnant, the sooner they realize this the better a company Microsoft will be.
"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.
""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""
