If you are afraid of progress then you aren't the market leader because you aren't leading. You just happen to be the biggest company currently on the market.
Why not expand on the things where portable software is weak, like making a well-integrated system? But they missed it and let Apple fill that space.
Why not accept the future you predicted and be the first to arrive there? But web development only considered Microsoft an annoyance for a long time due to Internet Explorer.