Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
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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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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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I think they thought of putting in a more sales-oriented person (Johnson) who talks to customers all the time and really knows what they're asking for.
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.
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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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They have to prove this year that Xbox 360 is going to be a money maker, because they have put a lot into it. Overall, I don't think there were any big surprises. Windows and Tools are going like gangbusters.
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They have to find a way to increase search traffic. You'll have to look a year from now to see if they made any progress.
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I'm fairly sure this will be a reference design for third parties.
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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.
academic division group judged microsoft might products pure research
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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They are licensing a specific subset related to the protocols the EU demanded more documentation on.
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They want to have more of a constant supply.