xalex - 7:31 am on Sep 30, 2008 (gmt 0)

For small business, if you actually need 4-10 copies of MS Office, plus upgrade every 2-3 year, Open Office is lot cheaper. Thats where MS is being killed. MS will rule personal use of office for next 10 years, but its hard to justify, that much money for small business. Large business are still playing safe sticking to MS or just not upgrading everyone.

MS SQL is still pretty useful product combined with Access, Server and integration with desktop software. The death of MS will be when they lose this market to MySql and Java in desktop front.

MS has already lost to LAMP, so it wont be long. So either MS Search becomes a player or Balmer sinks the ship in near future.