You and trolls like Donnie Boy who is 0 for 100000000 in his wishful thinking predictions don't seem to understand.
ARM is for consumer electronics and cannot power business class machines at this time.
But the larger point is just like SAAS and Cloud computing and list goes on and on....MS is not so much "lagging behind" but playing it conservatively.
You don't understand that it still has to serve nearly a billion users who will be on laptops and desktops to run their personal and business machines for years and years to come? YOu think they just drop 90% of their business to stay up with the cutting edge startups?
YOu are as foolhardy as DB. The technology being reported on ZDNET today reaches the lions share of users and businesses normally at least 10 years down the road. Use SAAS as a yard stick. It was going to be the death of MS over 10 years ago...and meanwhile MS found a way to keep it's current customers happy (software) with a firm grasp on the futres (serives).
That approach has kept them the leader they have been and still are today.
Cosuna, did you notice that MS revenues are still continuing to climb? When is the decrease going to occur that you and DB have been predicting for 10 years.
Any fool could predict a company will show some loss and be right eventually. When you are 90 years old, please come back and you can get the satisfaction of saying "I told you so".
IN the meanwhile, Azure is a very strong offering and if you've not tried the FREE online Office Live Apps, then you wouldn't know they blow Google out of the water and keep even low budgets in current technology with the best interface going.
You admit that they are doing the right things with Office now but didn't for a while. Why do you think that was? You don't realize it has as much to do with their client mix as anything?
I think MS revels in people like DB and apparently yourself thinking they are always behind, only to find out they are as healthy as ever with record revenues every year.
They are not a startup, so unless you are foolish, don't expect them to act like one. Most of those are a flash in the pan and teh technology they are pushing never reaches mainstream. It takes years for new technologies to settle in on something the mainstream will adopt but apparently that's not very clear to certain people here.
A slow steady mixed approach is needed by a large company like MS.
And as for the technology you claim they don't have, apparently you've not been following MS very well.
And WP7 is going to be a major phone contender, even though phones are not really Microsoft's gig.
Apple has skyrocketed but they have no path to future sales other than brand loyalty. There is no "infrastructure" to sustain it. It's consumer electronics and nothing more and as we all know, the star of that arena one day, can be knocked off much faster than in the world of, oh, let's say business software and the infrastructure it builds which lends itself to self perpetuating sales.
Sorry to burst your bubble but MS knows exactly what they are doing. Their record revenues show this, but keep your predictions going and some year down the road you are sure to be right. In the meantime the rest of us are getting our work done with the best software on the planet.
He thinks he can do everything else better too, right? 
