It's amazing when you open your browser, point your reading to Slashdot (the temple of Anti-Microsoft guys) and you find a link to an article like this: "The Microsoft malaise: eight signs that the software giant is dead in the water" (always by the same person, John Dvorak).
The author points the attention to what he thinks to be eight Microsoft's "bed-ridden condition":
- Vista OS: little more than a gussied-up version of Windows XP;
- Office 2007: not many news and seven different versions are going to be released which will just confuse things;
- MSN: only for sellind advertisements;
- MSN Search Engine: the same above;
- XBox 360: not enough units to satisfy the demand;
- Pad-based computing: where are they?
- Preoccupation with Google;
- .NET: The .NET Framework that many believe is an example of how Microsoft can actually put together elegant and powerful architectures when it wants to, is being killed by Open Source systems that are free and almost just as powerful.
These words are self explained as a tempation to write an article only for speculation, only to make noise and rumours. I recommend John to explore from the inside at least some of the arguments he has mentioned and check with attention if he really thinks that his words are true.
Really do you think that Vista is a new XP with a bit of refresh, that Office 2007 has nothing new, that .NET is not so powerful as other open source systems? 
I can't believe it... John has release 8 signs of nonsense again.