Microsoft is pretty far behind in that realm my friend. They've had their glory days; and they've already gone. Looking at the sales statistics.. everything Microsoft isn't industry leading at all. Tragic really for a company that really helped start all of this.. even if it was by ripping off others.
But I mean they are slowing down, paying for OS just isn't a thing I can see five years in the future, from the chrome OS and Linuxes getting more popular, heck even Mac OS is free, and now that google made those chromebooks that I'm totally getting .. but still.. the majority of people still use Windows on their PC, and I really like the connectivity they want to create, One mail Every service, the outlook mail can be used on your phone, pc, gaming console, that is what I love about Microsoft, me and they think alike, but than again I can see Google ripping their guts out in a decade.