Microsoft's New Irrelevance. Microsoft has been styled the robber baron of software for nearly two decades now, and
as the company's reach has grown longer, the cries of alarm from savvy users have grown
louder and more urgent. But a funny thing happened on the way to a Microsoft-ruled IT
world. Customers stopped obeying the software titan's whims. [osOpinion]

It certainly has started to look like the era of Microsoft is about to end. Perhaps this is similar to the end of the golden days of mainframe business for IBM.

But who will be the new king of the hill? Sun? IBM? (Again!?) HP? Dell? (World without innovation...)