SOA filling the Gaps

In all Vendors Survival posts (e.g. Google , Apple , HP ) I argued that no company will surely survive for a decade. People may think that I am wrong as far as a giant market leaders are concerned. However, I recently read two interesting articles about  a leading Virtual World company almost vanishing 5 years  after  its peak . The article is titled: Why Second Life failed?    The second article is more surprising: it is about a giant company included in my Vendor Survival posts,  as well as in other posts. The company is: Microsoft . On June 8th I wrote the post: Will Microsoft Survive until 2021?  which discuss the possibility that Microsoft will not survive until 2021. Less than a month prior to this post I wrote a post titled: Microsoft's Skype acquisition: Warning Signs ahead . The title depict my message: probably, Skype acquisition will not solve Microsoft's Mobile market challenges.  The Business Insider 's article titled: Steve...