This article is hilarious, it will go on the trash heap of hundreds of other similar articles that proclaimed Microsoft dead or irrelevant.
In the first breath it claims that Microsoft single handedly strangled the market, kept innovation dead and held the marketplace in the dark ages so it could rule over it like a tyrant. Then in the next breath it explains how PlayStation and Google are kicking major ass and blowing everything MS does away. Which is it???
Microsoft isn’t going anywhere... I think they have made missteps but in some cases they are far ahead of google.
Microsoft may have lost ground in some areas, but it is still number one in its core interests and it is far more diverse in technological areas than most of its competitors.