Clouds Ahead for Microsoft

An excellent New York Times article discusses the future (problems) of Microsoft and its relation to the tech market. While Microsoft may no longer be the star of the party, it still has some $31.45 billion in cash and short-term investments and $10 billion committed to R&D in the next few years. With that kind of financial weight and its enormous longstanding global tentacles, Balmer and his cronies have a lot of prospects.