can developers really follow Microsoft?

it’s not like I’m saying that Windows 8 will be the end of Microsoft. Of course not. Probably it will be disliked just like Vista and afterwards things will be re-improved like with Windows 7. The problem is that Microsoft is losing time. A lot of time. Sooner or later operating systems such as OSX and Linux will completely catch up with what really matters in a desktop, which apart from its own features, are the applications which run on it.

IMHO not too convincingly but article have some fresh thoughts