Not particularly.

My personal feeling is that they are just hemorrhaging bad press in combination with the bad business decisions of their past.

They still have the OS for the vast majority of computers in the world, but Apple is just destroying them where image is concerned.

And then there is Vista.
I agree with the Microsoft campaign where they tried to prove that "Vista is not that bad", but the fact is that people like my parents are really annoyed with things like when a message pops up every time they install something saying this is not certified genuine 100% grade A Microsoft software, are you sure you want to risk the fate of the world by installing this?

I think their fortunes could turn around quickly if they could steal a few employees from the Apple UI team and buy up a couple more anti virus companies.

And a personal peeve of mine, please loose the regional language versions of Windows and allow me to switch languages on the fly (90% of the reason I switched to a Mac after 20 years of Windows.

If they play the cards right with Windows 7 (or maybe 8 that's in the works) I think things can turn around. But if they don't change the general "gut feeling" people have right now, they are in deep trouble.

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