I think the title describes what's happening to Microsoft now that Gates has moved on. The company has been too big for its own good for awhile now, but without Gates to lend some direction, they've turned into IBM (but the one from the early 80's, not the modern one). Witness their latest idea for an ad campaign:

Microsoft Corp., weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.'s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld.

Yeah, when people see you as stodgy, turning to a comic from a previous decade is definitely the way to undo that :) I'll give them this - it's not as dumb as the "Windows Mojave" idea. They even have a website for that now. and the first thing you see is a bunch of people telling them how much Vista sucks. Sure, they eventually go on to let you know that the "secret crystals" are actually Vista - but they lead with the negative, and they never show us the product.

Hat tip Troy.

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