"Microsoft's software profits have been in decline throughout this year, 
and its bottom line is being propped up only by impressive returns on its 
investments. Multiple trends have converged to obsolete the MS business 
model, but future historians are likely to credit Linux with being the 
catalyst that undid the MS money machine at the start of the new 
millennium."

Rest of the story at:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-11-06-001-06-PS