[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I'm not worried... I expect MS to collapse under it's own weight, a bloated, tired dinosaur of a company, irrelevant and ignored, in about 10 years or so. Much like IBM did about 10-15 years ago.

Time to head for home... later all!

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm not worried... I expect MS to collapse under it's own weight, a bloated, tired dinosaur of a company, irrelevant and ignored, in about 10 years or so. Much like IBM did about 10-15 years ago.

IBM died because a lot of cheaper imitations that worked just as well flooded the market and outsold them. That will be harder to do if MS keeps buying and killing anything good enough to look like competition.

And as long as their product stays as good, and as innovative as it is, the complaints will only be muttered among the fringe elements. MS may be taking us, hook line and sinker, but we are snapping it up everything he creates with eagerness. I am happy as long as the stuff is great, and the fact that everyone else I communicate with is using it makes my life better, not worse. No harm. no foul.