]
] But Microsoft just isn't the phenom it used to be. After
] 29 years, the software giant is starting to look like a
] star athlete who's past his prime. Growth is tepid.
] Expansion is stymied. Bureaucracy is a concern. And a
] company that used to be so intimidating it attracted
] antitrust suits on two continents seems, well,
] vulnerable.

If M$ can't reinvent the desktop OS and office suite with
Longhorn, I think Linux is really going to start snowballing
in the desktop space in just a few more years.

There's a quote in here from Gates that he thinks that M$'s
biggest competitor right now is their own installed base;
they have been having more and more trouble pushing upgrades.

BW Online | April 19, 2004 | Microsoft's Midlife Crisis