Yes, and notice that the money in the business isn't in updating Android. It's in selling flashy handsets like Samsung.

Whatever's in consumer's minds can command crazy margins - Apple, Nintendo during the Wii+DS, Cabbage Patch Kids that one Christmas in 1983, etc.

Nop, you're considered old (no offense, even I, at 21, am considered old on this side). When I say cool youngsters it's 15-16 years old mainly. 

Facebook starter to get a lot of marketers after the beginnings of zynga.

It's already began it's last phase.

(I use facebook mainly for events too, and sharing notes etc with the rest of my class (IT student))

I can't see either vanishing.

People love FB. If it goes away, then all that means is G+ stole the market and that will only happen if Google overtakes MS as the default operating system worldwide.

MS is still extremely dominant in every market. Only way its going dodo is again.. Google and its ChromeOS or similar.

However, MS is smart enough to adapt to the cloud technology / base that is central to Google's platform. So in the end, they may lose marketshare and never really gain a big foothold in mobile space, but they won't vanish.

LOL no way! they'll be around for many many many more years to come.

^^^^^^^^^^

He will be gone in 5 years. LOL

Microsoft is in the background the way the government is in the background. They aren't losing power or viability, and you rely on them more than you may realize.

How would MS become irrelevant? Odds are you're on a MS OS. Your company probably runs primarily off of MS software. The most popular console in the US is a MS one. and MS has the most advanced/impressive cloud solutions positioning them well for the future. If you think MS is becoming irrelevant, you're probably not in touch with the world.

The desktop PC itself is becoming less of a necessity at home, except for power users/gamers which are actually quite small of a market. Most people could get on fine with just a dockable tablet running Android or iOS. Perhaps one laptop per household, but everyone having their own non-MS tablet and phone. I certainly see that happening soon.

My computer has no MS software on it except for Windows (and I do have Linux installed), because there are good alternatives to all consumer things they do now.

I see "the cloud" as something MS is a decent competitor in, but is not dominating anything close to it's used to.

And the Xbox is only strong in the US. They're not even bothering to launch Xbone in Japan till late next year. And in Europe it's an even choice between the two most probably.

They are losing the power to say, "this is how things are going to be, take it or leave it" like they could 1995-2005ish. With web standards, with software choices, with hardware choices, and so on.

This basically sums it up.  They aren't the only option now, and the other options just keep getting better.  Thus MS better tread carefully...

What a faulty analysis to compare MySpace with Facebook.

What about YouTube, eh? Is YouTube going away too in the near future? It's as huge as it's ever been, and I think it was launched in 2005.

Myspace was never big. Facebook is enormous. You can't compare the two. Everybody is on FB, ordinary people, artists, shops, companies, everybody has a page on FB, even terrorists. Only a few nerds and some people who want to remain anonimous like me aren't on FB but the majority of young people in the rich world are there. Has there ever been a social site able to gather so many people together all over the world?

Ignorance allover the place. Got to love the partial freedom of expression.