Which is it's largest base of users: Outlook, Office, and Windows XP+7.
For sure, but MS Office is available for other platforms, and when a bussiness ditches Windows it weakens the MS Office foothold substantially. Should we upgrade to the new office, or try something cheaper?
Do you really want a world of only Apple (expensive), Google (full tracking), Firefox (developers know best), Ubuntu (ads, social media, fads) and Red Hat OSes?
No, that was a projection, not a desire. In any case better to have Google tracking me than the NSA, right?! Oh wait.
The world would get along better if Apple or Google disappeared than if Microsoft did.
I don't mind apple so much as its cultists. The world would definitely be better with out the macolytes. I don't really want MS to dissapear, but they've been making some very bad decisions lately, and I don't think they'll start making good decisions, fast enough, to reclaim their relevance.
But just because I defended them doesn't mean I like them any better.
I used to like them. NT4 and Win2k were pretty solid OSes. Now it's Linux for any work, and a win7 box for games and cross platform testing.