Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
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.
along google microsoft platform sorts threat turn web
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.
computing response sort
It's sort of a response to the whole way computing is evolving.
advertising double five microsoft online surprised three
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft could double (its online advertising revenue) in three to five years.
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,
agency biggest cannot concern core dictate government precedent
Microsoft's biggest concern is the precedent whereby a government agency can dictate what it can and cannot put into its core product.
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.
itself left microsoft
What's left under MSN -- MSNBC? Microsoft just divested itself of that, too.
folks maybe move resent run seeing stock time
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.
deal gets microsoft worse
If it gets worse and Microsoft doesn't deal well with it, they have a problem.
business charge contact customer customers executive importance leadership people smart technical views wants
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.
business consoles given hardware microsoft model
Given the business model for the consoles the more Microsoft can backload those hardware sales, the better it is for them financially.
blitz ink launch less marketing mean red require software
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.
decided lead letter similar
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.