Google Andriod for PC - could this be the beginning of the end of the road for Microsoft?

With Google's ever increasing market share of the moble phone market with it's seemingly reliable operating system Andriod (not forgetting Google's constant push of their Mozilla based internet Browser Chrome), there's increasing talk of Google eventually producing a full operating system for Intel based PC's. It would appear that Intel already recognise Google are striving to push their technology in to as much of the market as they can and Microsoft are beginning to worry...and so they should.

For years it was almost joked about that Bill Gates 'stole' DOS from IBM; yet the second coming of Apple has forced Microsoft to lose an enormous cut of the market share they once held. Microsoft have, for many years, wasted resources on a part of the market that I think they never really understood (or didn't care to). That mixed with the release of really slow and unreliable operating systems such as as Windows Vista (added to the worlds increasing dislike of multi-billion corporations), means that more people are turning away from Microsoft than ever before for operating systems like Snowleopard and Linux Ubuntu.

I've used Ubuntu for some time now and whilst not perfect, it's a bloody good free alternative to the (still very expensive) Windows 7. I also owned a Windows Mobile phone up until a few months ago but it's constant unreliability forced me back to Symbian - basic, but it works, and that's what I need. That's what most people need which is why they're increasingly telling Microsoft that they're not prepared to put up with being charged for something that simply doesn't cut it.

Of course, it's easy to single out Microsoft; they are still the market leaders and there are still far more Windows-based machines in the world that Apple, but Microsofts share is getting less and less and will continue to do so until Microsoft sit up and listen that people are no longer prepared to pay over-the-odds for technology which could be funded by alternative means such as pay-per-click. Apple are gaining all the time and Google want a slice of them too. If I was a Microsoft shareholder I would be seriously considering moving my money...perhaps it's just too late for Microsoft to recover?