Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
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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.
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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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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.
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This could be a chance to inflect that growth rate upward. But it's a challenge for Microsoft to overcome the perception that older versions of these products are good enough.
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That number three job at Microsoft is a tough position to be in.
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If it gets worse and Microsoft doesn't deal well with it, they have a problem.
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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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That has been the big threat from Google all along -- that Google would turn the Web into this platform for all sorts of functionality. Microsoft has to respond.
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That is one area that Microsoft thinks is potentially very lucrative and fast growing.
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Realizing it will take a while to get these documents where the EC wants them, Microsoft decided to buy a little bit of time by releasing the source code while it continues to work on the documentation. I think they are going to have to continue improving that documentation.
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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.
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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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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.
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They are licensing a specific subset related to the protocols the EU demanded more documentation on.