Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
areas clear delivering improvement product room timely
There's room for improvement in areas such as clear product roadmaps and delivering timely updates,
compete europe government include markets microsoft monopoly operating product says unified windows
Europe says you can't use one monopoly to compete in other markets unfairly. Microsoft argues that Windows is a unified product and no government should have the right to say what it can or can't include in the operating system.
actual predicted revenue xbox
The big disparity between predicted and actual revenue was, in fact, Xbox shortages.
life money software
The idea being that, over the life of the business, they make their money off software and peripherals.
competitor looks obvious
The obvious competitor who they're gunning for here looks like Skype,
believes businesses deliver microsoft services
Microsoft believes it can deliver services that businesses are really demanding, integrating them better with one another and with Microsoft software,
strategic
I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.
increase search year
They have to find a way to increase search traffic. You'll have to look a year from now to see if they made any progress.
apple available company concern dominant ensure entertainment home keeping main microsoft none partner pc possible readily services
The main thing for Microsoft as a company is to get as much use as possible for the PC as a home entertainment device, and one way to do that is ensure that there is a lot of readily available content. Their concern is that none of the partner services will take off or will be effective, keeping Apple as a dominant platform.
search sell
MSN may want to sell search to AOL.
higher product versions
Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.
asking customers knows putting sales talks time
I think they thought of putting in a more sales-oriented person (Johnson) who talks to customers all the time and really knows what they're asking for.
design fairly reference sure third
I'm fairly sure this will be a reference design for third parties.
access content geeky home network people question store
The question is: Will people really store content on the PC, set up a home network and then access content over the network? That's still a pretty geeky thing to do.