How Microsoft has become the Beleaguered Apple of '96

Windows Enthusiasts have been working hard to advance the idea that Apple has become the new Microsoft, supposedly by monopolizing the market for music sales and MP3 players and in creating new bodies of technology in its own image to discover territories outside of Microsoft's reach. However, they're missing something far more interesting: Microsoft is reverting to become the beleaguered old Apple of the mid 90s. Here's how.

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