Aaaargh. Lose. The misused "loose" has come out of nowhere in the last 5 years, and for some reason really annoys me.

This, this, and again this.

and a decade later, Google's been making billions of dollars each year, and despite massive investment Microsoft is barely breaking even.

so true, MS still has the Windows, Office, SQL/Excahnge, and XBox businesses. but its failures in the internet mean that it's not seen as a leader, and its stock price is justifiably suffering.

Yes and it was hit hard and to make matters worse - it only have itself to blame.

However they are still far from where one would write them off completely.