MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL With the Windows Surface RT selling out of its available stock -- and winning an endorsement from Oprah Winfrey no less -- it may seem like Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is riding on a high. Despite the short-term good news the long-term fate fate of the company is not so rosy at least according to futurist Peter Cochrane  ex-chief technology officer of British Telecom which trades as BT Group (NYSE:BT). Microsoft will "die and disappear" within the next few years Cochrane told  Computing. "There is no convergence in IT -- what we see is divergence...apps are appearing individually to achieve separate functions ...