Great articles.

>>Very quietly, and without many of us even realizing it, open-source Android and Apple iOS have become the world's top personal operating system leaving Windows in the dust of computing history. Short of a smartphones and tablet Microsoft miracle, Windows' day of the dominant end-user operating system is almost over.

When Windows began to eat Apple's lunch, Apple relied on great design and better OS to reassure its customers. It still almost lost the battle and only made a come-back in PC when other Apple devices made the brand seriously cool and Apple fans looked at Mac and realized how nice it really is. But even Apple PC shipments are dropping now. MS's attempts to create cool devices generally have tanked and it can't offer better hardware or OS features- recent Windows releases have none of the excitement Windows once generated, WP is a tank and Windows 8 has had a ho-hum reception- so it's down to lock-in to a once dominant OS. That won't be enough for long.