[makecheck]

With something as established as Windows and Office, you could continue to see decent revenues almost with your eyes closed, so let's not commend Microsoft too much for merely maintaining what is practically handed to them. The only credit they deserve is for establishing those wins in the first place, but these are now 20-year-old victories; very little that's new has arrived. What is new, has also cost them dearly (e.g. how much money does X-box make...or, does it make money?).

I am quite sure that the only thing keeping them in business is their money. They have made enough bad decisions to kill any smaller company.

[byoung2]

I'm not commending Ballmer or Microsoft for anything. I'm just saying that there are a lot of people calling Ballmer a failure for maintaining an even keel. The company is not losing money, they are profitable, and they are far from going out of business. They aren't growing at a breakneck pace either, but that is not failure. They have plenty of cash on hand to continue experimenting.