"Steve Ballmer's Nightmare is Coming True. (I had to include the image - yet another great picture of Ballmer.)  Windows 8 doesn't seem to be reasserting the dominance of the PC. Windows Phone is not a viable third platform. Bing is still burning money. The Microsoft nightmare scenario is actually becoming a reality.  Some if the ""analysis"" is a little simplistic and aggressively generalises. It would be nice to have more numbers and less opinion, but the general message is absolutely right. Gruber summarises the point perfectly:  In a nut, Microsoft is losing relevance. That's deadly.  Yep."