From my recent experiences, it seems more like Microsoft is committing suicide.
The only company that can kill Microsoft is Microsoft. I doubt they are that stupid, unless they hire Ballmer back.
If they would leave the stuff that works alone and concentrate on the parts that don’t work...
Can I be honest?
I’m looking forward to the day when my cool high end bells whistles intrusive “smart phone” is replaced with a dumb phone....It breaks or gets any more obnoxiously intrusive, it’s gone.
Very much looking forward to that.
“From my recent experiences, it seems more like Microsoft is committing suicide.”
Indeed. Google and Apple are not killing Microsoft: Microsoft is killing Microsoft, first with Windows 8, and probably with Windows 10 as well, because there’s no business case to convert from Windows 7 to Windows 10 unless Windows 10 offers guaranteed compatibility and MUCH better productivity for the millions of users and applications supported by Windows 7. Cortana and Microsoft clouds and Microsoft Stores and unified platforms and all the rest are either gimmicks or things that MICROSOFT cares about, and not things that their current installed base cares about.
I strongly suspect that Microsoft has not learned the lessons that they should have learned from the Windows 8 debacle.
Indeed, I think XBox has pretty much cannibalized the PC market for games.