SOME of our contributors get ridiculed for merely suggesting that Microsoft's future is not certain. Microsoft is still highly dependent on two products -- Windows and Office -- because the rest of its products, as many as there may be, are simply losing money, not making any. This is a verifiable fact. In addition, numbers have just been released which show a death toll of almost 2 products per month at Microsoft.
Microsoft guns down 13 unlucky products
Microsoft shuttered, put a hold on and let go of 13 products in the past eight months to help it cut costs, following a profits dive at the company that led to job cuts.