Good artycle .
Cant say I agree 100% with it but has very solid points in it .
MS bread and butter is the use of its propietary software and the industry as a whole is resisting with increased force to use it so that hurts Microsoft .
Not receiving the royalties for each HD-DVD player and HD-DVD movie encoded with MS software and embedded with HDI software or curse hurts MS .
Companies pushing for OpenGL instead of DirectX of course hurts MS .
The Zune failing of course hurts MS .
And so on .
Some of the wording and such may be debatable ,and some shipped numbers too ,but I think the article is very good and gives a good perspective at whats going on in the software/licensing sector .And one thing is for sure ,MS is losing its iron grip and not because it isnt fighting the harder possible simply the industry doesnt want it anymore .