Will it be the end of a big giant

Google has completely captured the market of web(advertisements and searches) and its new release Google Chrome(An excellent browser) might prove to be a nightmare to the Microsoft Internet Explorer.To challenge the Google dominance Microsoft again tried its old policy of mergers and acquisitions and tried to lure yahoo(really a big name in web market after Google) with its 44.5 b $ but it all went into vain.

Market analysts are predicting that Google is going to release Google OS that can bring trouble to Microsoft vista(which is already a failure)

Apple, Red Hat and other OS manufacturers with their new features are already proving a danger for Microsoft.

Sony is a way ahead in the field of Play-station and is challenging Microsoft XBox

Its new software Vista is getting a challenge from its previous version XP

So what the above facts are telling us : is this really the end of the road for Microsoft. With the two key players of Microsoft i.e. Windows XP and Bill Gates stepping down this year is really gonna hit Microsoft. Microsoft chief Bill Gates officially leaving Microsoft in the end of July and the official announcement of Microsoft to stop the sales of Windows XP from this year onwards is really posing a big threat to Microsoft which has been a buzzwords in IT sector. Windows XP has been a great product from Microsoft Labs which has brought down the computer to the reach of common man. XP made Microsoft presence felt in Offices(Its Office XP and MS Word 2003 have been of great use) , in homes( as a source of entertainment) and in schools and colleges( as a learning tool). The friendly GUI of Windows XP made it easy for even a two-three year old child to handle the computer(oops a big term as it was thought to be in early 1960s and was limited to a group of elite people consisting of scientists and engineers) with such a great ease.
But there are always some pros and cons and XP is not a exception to this. With its ease it made a way for the hackers and viruses to sneak into the system and to play with the sensitive data making computer the most frustrating thing that ever existed on this earth. In my four years of engineering i have seen some really good work from virus writers and their ability to exploit the pitfalls in Windows XP. Everyday i used to find my computer infected with some other virus (really a improved one compared to previous) that was not even detected by Anti-virus Softwares. To computer science people a new virus really appears to be a challenge and every time in a day or two they come up with some solution to it (if no solution is there, format is the only option ) but what about the common man who knows only the basic details of computers and the businessmen who don't have enough time to try a hand on these nasty viruses. It appears quite frustrating when you just surf one or two sites and suddenly you find your computer running quite slow or you plug in a pen drive and find some quite irritating(well someone can term them interesting) things going on in your computer. Well to answer all these problems Microsoft came up with a totally new Windows i.e. Vista previous year ( somewhere in spring) with some great expectations (It is said to be the dream project of Bill gates) but ...