Yep...looks like 'im...

MS's strategies have always been flawed for the most part... Windows ME, Windows Vista, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10... 

Hehe, yeap and I'll stick with W7 as long as I can.

Me too W7

I agree with everything said in that article except the last line:

"As iOS and Android apps get better and better, and iOS and Android tablets become closer and closer to replacing PCs, Windows will continue to lose relevance."

Tablets and phones will never replace PC's. When will the media just accept this? To prove my point, I challenge any of the PC doomsayers to try to build a moderately complex spreadsheet using a tablet or phone...

It seems more and more like they want that to be true, rather than just predict it will be true. It's certainly a bone they won't let go.

Bottom line: MS Corp is a business.  Anything that they can get away with to increase the Corp's bottom line is acceptable.  We are not customers anymore.  The days of the customer being 'always right' are history.  There is no real personal element to business anymore - its all aggregates, statistics, vast numbers of 'commodities' both human and other.  So MS's business model is not a failure - they still make fairly good profits, don't they?

Tablet sales are actually in decline and PC sales are slowly on the rise.

Says who?  Buggered if I know, but I did read it somewhere

it's going to be more and more difficult to install older os on new machines... pfft.. eg skylake has no native usb 2 support whilst win 7 installation disc has no usb 3 support.. .so you need to stick the win 7 iso into a usb drive and eh... use some driver disc to load the usb via usb 3 or something to install (... eh.. basically mod the installation media to load usb3 driver)... meanwhilst if you try to install win 7 via dvd drive instead, you'll need ps/2 port... for kb/mouse.. or some rubbish like that. (because the usbs won't work until install is done )

or so i read.

I like Windows 10 so far.

The media is always trying to make us believe in some Utopian society where we are all interfacing with a tablet. I have three tablets collecting dust since I can't find anything to do on them that is not easier and more enjoyable on a PC built by me. As far as sales comparisons, I wonder if they include PC parts in the numbers, vs just whole PC sales, since so many build their own.

I read somewhere that tablets are fast becoming dinosaurs. 

PC's rule!

As a dinosaurs myself I just keep replacing the mobo when it dies and reload W7. I have extra drives and ram.

To sum up their current reasoning, I'm smart enough to use my Windows PC and my Android phone, but Microsoft thinks I'm dumb enough to want them to work the same way.

You got it in a nutshell...

Slightly OT:

I predict within two iterations of Windows, the GUI will have been simplified to the point where there will only be two buttons:

SEARCH

BUY

The reason why MS wants PC's to be like tablets is because tablets are essentially little more than mobile purchase devices.