Is Microsoft going down?

Honestly, Microsoft makes a good product. For the most part, they offer attractive, easy to use software for the average user and strive to put it in every home on the planet. The work that they have done to achieve this is simply astounding.

It's true that they have made some bad decisions in the past(Windows ME, DRM Protection), but with the advent of OS's like XP and now Vista, I think they're finally finding what people what and giving it to them. Eventually, what they'll have to realize is that their development philosophy isn't going to work forever. Companies such as Mozilla, Google, Apple and countless Linux distributions are producing software quickly and with great enthusiasm. The stuff just works, and that's what people expect. Microsoft has relied on people putting up with some of the problems with their products for far too long and believing that the trend of doing so will continue for much longer might be their last bad decision.