Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
computing response sort
It's sort of a response to the whole way computing is evolving.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft could double (its online advertising revenue) in three to five years.
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Microsoft believes it can deliver services that businesses are really demanding, integrating them better with one another and with Microsoft software,
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Microsoft's biggest concern is the precedent whereby a government agency can dictate what it can and cannot put into its core product.
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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.
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What's left under MSN -- MSNBC? Microsoft just divested itself of that, too.
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There are some folks who have been there for a long time and who will resent the way things are being run as a bureaucracy. And maybe they were there for the big stock run-up and they're seeing the stock not move now.
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If it gets worse and Microsoft doesn't deal well with it, they have a problem.
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He wants to put people in charge who have a lot of customer contact and really know what customers want. He understands the importance of having smart technical people, but I think he views executive leadership as more of a business role. We'll see how that works.
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Given the business model for the consoles the more Microsoft can backload those hardware sales, the better it is for them financially.
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Getting to profitability will require a big-name software launch while withstanding a concentrated marketing blitz from Sony. Anything less could mean years of red ink ahead.
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Even if they don't violate the letter of the law, if competitors think that it's doing something similar to what's been decided earlier, it could lead to another lawsuit.
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But maybe those are the kinds of decisions that need to be pushed down and made at a lower level, anyway. The danger is that people get too wrapped up in the technology and cool features and lose sight of what customers are asking for. Sometimes business customers want the boring stuff.
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Most of the spokes are supplied by partners, Microsoft earns royalties, and the whole thing helps perpetuate the idea of Windows PCs as the central home entertainment device.