HP has been pretty much a corpse of a company since 2008, pretty much self inflicted. Microsoft had nothing to do with it.
Carly Fiorina RUINED that company to the point it will never recover.
I'd won a Technical Innovation award from HP in 2002. The award ceremony was in Chicago, Carly Fiorina was presenting the awards to the award winners.
I refused to have my picture taken with her. Didn't really care if I got the award that night either. I was so pissed at what she was turning that company into.