Adam Sohn

Adam Sohn
change competition
For us it's not a big change -- there's always been competition out there,
alliance announced anybody bunch delivered embrace fact implement industry liberty microsoft open passport public somehow standard statements technology totally
But, to date, the Liberty Alliance has delivered no technology at all, ... It's just delivered a bunch of statements by Microsoft competitors that somehow some unannounced technology is better than proprietary technology, when in fact Passport is totally on path, announced in public to embrace an open industry standard that anybody can implement on.
agree demands owner previous sell
Once you sell it, it's sold. Anything that would let the previous owner come back and make demands is not something we'd agree to.
wants
He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.
infinite
For a lot of users, it will feel like infinite scroll.
finally game likes lining people starting
Everyone likes to write that the game is over -- but it is still early. The story is that people are finally lining up in the starting blocks.
focus growing online
The partnership allows us to focus on growing the online venture.
david degree felt state
To some degree I think David felt comfortable enough with the state of things at MSN that now's the time.
offer resolve sell thousands tried
We tried to resolve this out of court, ... They made an offer to sell us these things for tens of thousands of dollars. We said 'no way.'
across build developers evolve gravitate pace people platform reach user value
We think we need to evolve the platform and development story to keep pace with developers who want to build these experiences that reach across the Internet. The more applications, the more value to the user and the more people gravitate to our platform.
difference focused security
We are very focused on securing and maintaining the servers on our network. From a security standpoint, there should be no difference between servers.
children comply data helping include information personally privacy protect protected regards request search share
We did comply with their request for data in regards to helping protect children in a way that ensured we also protected the privacy of our customers. We were able to share aggregated query data, not search results, that did not include any personally identifiable information at their request.
absolute across applied certainty check given hard patches people prefer security teams
Would we prefer that our people put patches in on the same day they come out? Sure. It's hard to give you an absolute certainty that the patch had been applied across the board. Given today's incident, our security teams are going back to check out the systems.
attract people
What we want to do is attract people into the (MSN) network,