Um, Microsoft isn't going anywhere.

Yup, bundled with divisions like Sony Ericcson afaik *shivers*

Guess we'll find out next week, won't we?

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.

Great news, more losses are needed tho. Well, I am waiting to see in what kind of trouble sony really is. Hopefully they will post even greater losses. They will deserve it too.

Do you mean that Microsoft Entertainment, Sony as a whole, Sony entertainment, or the Playstation brand deserves losses?

Whichever you meant, that's a pretty douche thing to say and I hope you don't mean it.

MS isn't doomed, but it is weakening. This quarterly decline only tells half the story, the other half is that a lot of Microsoft's enemies are growing stronger. Sony is pretty much the only rival Microsoft is beating right now, and even that victory is marginal considering Nintendo's dominance in the console space.

Apple and Google are seeing their profits rise strongly in spite of the downturn. They've all but pushed Windows out of the smartphone arena, and Apple has been slowly, but steadily, eroding Microsoft's consumer PC market while Linux applies pressure in the server market. MS did manage to fend off the threat of Linux-based netbooks by slashing their margins on Windows for netbooks, but now here comes Google with a new OS to threaten that space all over again and who knows what else besides.

Microsoft is besieged on so many fronts, it's no surprise that their dominance is waning. None of their recent attempts to break into new markets have been resounding successes, so it's more of a question of what territory Microsoft will hold rather than what it will gain.

Both, as long as they are in charge games will be like hollywood movies. Sequels after sequels with nothing new and terrible mass products that are trying to please everyone. Nintendo is doing it right, but I don't care about nintendo and its games. However they are making something differently and thats what matters. (No, I don't own wii or any other console and maybe never will if this crap continues.)

Not in trouble considering how deep MS's pockets are. It's never a good thing when a company loses money :(

As much as I hate MS, I don't want them to lose money.

you don't deserve to play games

Somebody's biiiiiiittter.