Am I wrong that MS makes most of its money from OS and Business products?   That's my point.  Stop pushing everything else and solidify your hegimoney on those things.  As it stands, Google is positioning itself to steal a lot of the Office market, and there are dozens of OS's eroding MS's dominance...

That is why I personally don't want MS to go away.  As much as I think other OS's could take enough marketshare to cripple MS, I am not entirely sure they will be better.

He's not an analyst.  That is for sure.  If he is one he's a poor one at that.

He has no historical perspective.

If Microsoft wanted, I'm sure it could easily take it's OS completely internal, buy up a company like Dell, and do its own server, pc/workstation, and laptop line as well the tablet line it already has and the smartphone line it seems it will likely have in the near future.  HP is simply trying to get Microsoft to negotiate something, or they're trying to look bold.  However, if Microsoft went in-house, HP's stock would crumble overnight.  They might still see some server business, but the majority of their business would dry right up.

lol they dont have to like MS to make a shitload of profit with them.

This development will slowly make room for alternatives. Personally I'd like to see Linux take Windows's spot, but I doubt it's going to happen. Either way, I think I'm going to like the change when it eventually happens.

I never go jumping up and down unless for some reason I want to jump (in which case it's totally unrelated to other things). MS is slowly losing ground, largely due to the rise of mobile devices that often run something else than Windows. PCs are, in the large scale, losing their relevance, which makes Windows less relevant, which in turn gives other options a better chance. And this just happened to be the first time I remember hearing about MS really losing some support, which made me glad.

1st of all we need people like dallas to post negative stuff about Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo. I doubt  Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo fans would actually want to post negative things about their favorite company. 2nd of all this article is an interest to some people. Why else would you click this forum? I came here to read about this article, just like many other people in here. If you are just going to cause arguements with other people just because he posted negative things about microsoft. Than I advice you to leave :)

OT: I hope they resolve their issues

Chromebook?!? Has anyone actually purchased one?  They seem pretty gimped to me.

I will believe it when I see HP releasing a PC running Linux at a lower price than a Windows PC.

Isnt this just an attempt from HP for Microsoft to buy them?

Cause if Microsoft pulled from HP, HP would die extremely quickly. What would they do. Linux HP's everywhere? Android HP's?

IBM did the same thing. Look what happened. They were where HP was back in the 90's.

I am surprised HP isn't dead yet... Their laptops are a joke compared to most of their competitors

I think MS is both a love/hate relationship... Its the only platform that people has gotten used to and its so popular with the largest third party support and almost everyone would hate to go to another platform than Windows but some things that Microsoft does are just so damn stupid... Oh well... I will forever love windows (except Vista, Millennium, 95)