Editor's note: This is Part 2 of a 5-part series that will be published over the course of this week. Stay tuned! Selling off its properties may seem like a step backward at first but if handled correctly it would allow Microsoft to make a sizable gain while helping it reposition its best products. Quite frankly it seems that Microsoft is fighting battles all over the tech industry and is losing in every hemisphere. It faces off against Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) in devices Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) in search engines and even Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) as an Internet portal through MSN. While some ...