Microsoft Meets Its Timely Demise—and Other Tech Fantasies - Businessweek

Excerpt from an accentuate-the-positive Microsoft perspective

"I like to refer to periods such as these as The Microdeath Dream Fantasy. It’s the five months or so that follow a launch of Windows in which all manner of experts celebrate Microsoft’s imminent demise due to lackluster Windows sales. It’s a result of the massive pent-up desire for Microsoft to fail. The company behaved in horrible, anticompetitive ways years ago and did so while foisting a series of uninspiring products on the citizenry."

Microsoft Meets Its Timely Demise—and Other Tech Fantasies - Businessweek