Daring Fireball: Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline

“Microsoft seems to have conceded that the enthusiasts who’ve switched to the Mac in recent years are gone for good. Their apparent goal for Windows 7 was merely to make something better than Windows Vista. If Microsoft were a healthy, functional, competitive company willing and able to honestly assess its own shortcomings — like the Microsoft of the ’90s that conquered the entire industry — their goal would have been to make something not just better than Vista, but better than anything else on the market, including Mac OS X.”

As usual, Gruber nails it. Not quite sure how any one guy can be so consistently spot on and express those ideas so perfectly. Like Microsoft should be doing, I come to every blank page thinking “I want to write something better than Gruber.”