Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
competitor looks obvious
The obvious competitor who they're gunning for here looks like Skype,
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.
computing response sort
It's sort of a response to the whole way computing is evolving.
actual predicted revenue xbox
The big disparity between predicted and actual revenue was, in fact, Xbox shortages.
effort form looks smaller tablet time
It looks like it's another effort to popularize the tablet PC, this time in a smaller form factor.
demanded eu related specific
They are licensing a specific subset related to the protocols the EU demanded more documentation on.
constant
They want to have more of a constant supply.
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.
area fast lucrative microsoft thinks
That is one area that Microsoft thinks is potentially very lucrative and fast growing.
certainly help holiday hoped number pc product
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.
biggest exist market product shown
The product would exist in a kind of in-between market that hasn't yet been shown to exist. But sometimes those are the biggest hits.
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.
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.