Seriously. I mean, they’re the largest software company in the world, their operating system still runs the majority of the world’s personal computers, but every time they’re in the news lately, it’s an embarrassment. Let’s start the list with Zune. The iPod killer. The machine that was going to walk into the digital audio market and show that, once again, there was nothing Apple could possess that Microsoft could not take away.

I’m not sure why everyone’s doing their “Of the Decade” lists going into 2010, but here we are. As part of the wrap-up of the Aughts, Newsweek has assembled various “experts” to give what they feel were the worst predictions of the decade, and Fake Steve Jobs (Daniel Lyons) starts the list off with Sir Alan Sugar’s prediction that “The iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput,” made in February 2005.

Yes, the iPhone is a combination music and video player, a mobile platform for e-mail and the web, and, of course, a phone. But what if you want all that, and more? How about if you want a phone that will project in HD, translate any language, shave you and make a mean cup of more »