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Originally Posted by pl001
That reputation is gone. And by dropping Silverlight they have ticked off those developers as well. They have been very arrogant as of late, maybe even more so than Apple. Trouble is, unlike Apple, they have neither the products or mobile market share to overcome it. They need to loosen their grip or they'll have perhaps the most epic fall in the history of technology. And no matter how anybody feels about them, that wouldn't be good, in fact it could be catastrophic for businesses.
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I can't see Microsoft disappearing entirely, they are simply too entrenched for that. Particularly when it comes to developer tools, which is one of the things they are still good at. (That's one of the reasons why they were able to make their XBox business successful: the developer tools for the 360 were much better than Sony's.)
On the other hand, I would absolutely welcome a replacement for Microsoft Office, which has become so buggy in it's last few iterations that I literally cannot use them at work. (Losing relative path support was the last straw for me.)