Windows 10 isn't ready yet, several refusing to boot up, 1 locked account with pasword, when there wasnt a password setup, looks pretty, Win 7 still my prefered, i have not long left XP mind, still on laptop. Phone OS is nasty, too much scrolling, icons all look the same, or symbols which i cant remember, voice system is the best out currently though. Win 10 , pretty much given away for free, not going to help. No one seems to use there apps store, still using as old windows software. On screen keyboard support on a tablet is apalling, just nasty, portrait only, bluetooth required. I actually think Softy will fade to very low levels over the next 10 years. Shorts only people. Xboxs likely there best product.
MSFT has an excellent leader and Board of Directors to take them into the future. They do not over promise or hide from decisions that fail. In other words, they are trustworthy. That fact makes them a good investment over the long haul.
I think, they are late to the party, behind the times and likely lacking the patents to enable them to give a better OS.
It's not all about OS. If you will look at Microsoft more deeply you will see that it is well diversified. Cloud services, Office software, Xbox and a bunch of other high-revenue stuff.
Not many people are going cloud or even like cloud, me included. Office 365 is really just nasty and cut down and horrible, prefer 2003 which is what I use. The phones run at a huge loss, I thought they where dumping the phone line, maybe it's just the Nokia brand ?? Server software ( same but 10x's the price ), they'll do okay on I guess, there exchange server software sucked years back, here it's still sucky and needs nearly fully time IT support to keep it up and working, which is just stupid. Can't be that hard, to scroll up a keyboard from the bottom, then centre what's left of the screen on where the cursor is, while letting you scroll that screen up and down, without resizing the window or doing anything stupid, so I guess there not allowed via patent issues. But I don't like how Apple OS's work, too it's this way or just don't bother and feels clunky. And Google, can't write good software to save there own asses and when they do, that app quickly disapears and gets merged to try to push a crap app. The market is desperately in need of some fresh blood isn't it, patent wise ruining this ofcourse.
All those years people have complained that Apple products are too expensive. Now that Microsoft has come up with a 1500+ USD notebook, price does no longer seem to be an issue. Funny. ;-)
Why pay $1500+, okay it's good and nice and everything not knocking it but, other makes, same OS, similar features $1000+ less. Apple are niche so they get away with the high prices, microsoft is the exact opposite.
Unfortunately for many, "services and cloud" are words they don't really understand. Azure is a top competitor in the public cloud space, in some ways it's Microsoft's biggest bet. Microsoft Dynamics services business competes and in some spaces beats Salesforce (a massive, billion dollar business). Office is still without rival (Microsoft's main cash cow) and the Office 365 business is something like the fastest growing SaaS application ever (there is some qualification there - it might be enterprise SaaS). Server is a multi billion dollar business. Windows 10 is a big bet, but if it declines (it may or may not - Surface is a multi-billion dollar business and growing YOY) there are areas where Microsoft is trying to make that up and more.