<i>Big companies are starting to ditch Microsoft Office for Google Apps. If this becomes a trend, Microsoft's second huge cash cow will be under immediate threat.</i><p>The IT guys removed Office from all of our computers at work and replaced it with OpenOffice last year. I would imagine that this is happening in a lot of places. Between OpenOffice and Google Docs, you have 90% of what you need to be productive, at a cost of $0. The other 10% costs you a couple hundred per seat. I bet a lot of companies are doing the math.
Is Kinect Microsoft's iPod?<p>It wasn't so long ago that Apple was also in dire circumstances.<p>Cash-cows die. What company has been able to milk the same cow forever. At what point does MS start giving away their legacy products and start charging for the things that nobody else is currently doing?<p>I read 'Microsoft's Business Will Just Completely Collapse' as their current business, but they've arguably got a pipeline of very interesting products still to come.