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I'm picking on you a bit here, but "Microsoft's Long, Slow Decline" is about as gentle a title can be while indicating that the article is about the general decline of Microsoft. Inflammatory would be "Microsoft is Dead", "Microsoft has Jumped the Shark" or "Microsoft Causes Cancer".

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Or the working title, per Twitter: http://twitter.com/gruber/status/2940843840

I wish this all weren't the case. Competition benefits everyone, and Apple's had fairly free reign over the improving-your-consumer-OS space for quite a while now.

Talk is cheap. If you really care than I see you contributing to an OSS desktop project.

I can't resist forwarding Gruber's most recent Twitter:

(The working title was ‘Microsoft Is Fucked’.)

Judiciously edited, I'd say. ;)

That probably would have gotten more clicks.

Not only that. It would also be taken less seriously.

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