Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
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.
effort form looks smaller tablet time
It looks like it's another effort to popularize the tablet PC, this time in a smaller form factor.
academic division group judged microsoft might products pure research
The Microsoft Research division might get between $150 and $200 million, which is still pretty significant for a pure research group that isn't judged, for example, on how many products they produce. They are judged very much like an academic research organization.
demanded eu related specific
They are licensing a specific subset related to the protocols the EU demanded more documentation on.
life money software
The idea being that, over the life of the business, they make their money off software and peripherals.
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.
boost move
I think it's exclusively a move to boost the brand.
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.
computing response sort
It's sort of a response to the whole way computing is evolving.
crazy sort track users
That is crazy expensive. But once you've got users in your world, you can track them. There is sort of an Orwellian possibility to it.
above agencies beyond company create documents inherent initiative microsoft trouble understand
This initiative is above and beyond what Microsoft was called to do, but it's also just a way for the company to show it is doing its best. This is the trouble when you have regulatory agencies make demands. They sometimes don't understand what's inherent in the demand. Microsoft can't create these documents overnight.