Paul - predictions like yours appear regularly - each time it is something else that would Âkill MicrosoftÂ: pen-computing and OS/2 Warp in the early 90s, Netscape in the mid-90s, Client-Server and the network computer from Sun and Oracle in the late 90s, Linux and open-source in the early 2000s, and now Google and Apple. Clearly Microsoft has lots of challenges ahead but I suspect they have many smart people working to tackle them. ItÂs far from Âgame-overÂ, just like it was 17 years ago when there were far fewer Microsoft users on this planet..