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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Honestly, I'm having a hard time envisioning where this product will fit into consumers' lives. It occupies an awkward position between single-function handheld devices and laptops. I'm not sure a market exists here.
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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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It's certainly disappointing for the PC manufacturers that had hoped Vista would help holiday sales, and this is a flagship product that already had been plagued by a number of delays.
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There's room for improvement in areas such as clear product roadmaps and delivering timely updates,
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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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Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.
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They are licensing a specific subset related to the protocols the EU demanded more documentation on.
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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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I think it's exclusively a move to boost the brand.
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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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They're pretty up front about what's going on there and they don't expect any change in their total full-year shipments, so I think they'll be able to accelerate in the second half of this fiscal year.
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If you think things are not being run well, then yesterday will lend credence to your arguments.
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There might be an executive departure that we haven't heard of yet.