Microsoft's Change of Pace

I found the article, "Rebuilding Microsoft" to be particularly interesting in this month's Wired. In reading the article, it was the first I had heard that Microsoft is supposedly having trouble keeping on the edge of the market; though, it sounds like the company is ready to change that. With Bill Gates moving on to devote more of his time to philanthropic efforts, he has assigned Ray Ozzie to take his old position of Chief Software Architect, and the whole business model of Microsoft looks to be shifting gears.
The idea of high-tech accessories is going to be one of the company's new primary concerns, which sounds very similar to Apple. I guess we will just have to see in the next couple years, with Windows Vista coming out and all these new gadgets and internet markets that Microsoft is getting involved in, if the company if going to reassume its position of total domination or just be "another" company trying to sell the same thing everyone else is.