Craig Mundie
Craig Mundie
Craig James Mundieis Senior Advisor to the CEO at Microsoft and its former Chief Research and Strategy Officer. He started in the consumer platforms division in 1992, managing the production of Windows CE for hand-held and automotive systems and early console games. In 1997, Mundie oversaw the acquisition of WebTV Networks. He has championed Microsoft Trustworthy Computing and digital rights management...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 July 1949
CountryUnited States of America
There's a critical need to attract the best people in the world.
could be a serious problem downstream in the society here.
We think the big deal here is to give a lot more people access to a level of computation that was not available before.
Microsoft has no beef with open source, ... We happen to like and will continue to pursue commercial software as a business model Microsoft believes in. Ultimately, the market will tell us if that choice is a good one.
If they slide too far, they'll find themselves in the same situation as the Xbox did when they launched the PS2 a year before we entered. That's a hill to climb.
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The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.
We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.
I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.
Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.
Data are becoming the new raw material of business.
We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.
As we've learned ? or really re-learned ? one can't build a business or our economic future on that type of flimsy foundation.
But it is always a challenge to commercialize those inventions.