Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
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Most of the spokes are supplied by partners, Microsoft earns royalties, and the whole thing helps perpetuate the idea of Windows PCs as the central home entertainment device.
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Given the business model for the consoles the more Microsoft can backload those hardware sales, the better it is for them financially.
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If it gets worse and Microsoft doesn't deal well with it, they have a problem.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft could double (its online advertising revenue) in three to five years.
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What's left under MSN -- MSNBC? Microsoft just divested itself of that, too.
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Microsoft believes it can deliver services that businesses are really demanding, integrating them better with one another and with Microsoft software,
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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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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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That number three job at Microsoft is a tough position to be in.
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Content owners may not take advantage of what Microsoft is doing? They could bypass the PC altogether, or come up with some other type of system.
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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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This initiative is above and beyond what Microsoft was called to do, but it's also just a way for the company to show it is doing its best. This is the trouble when you have regulatory agencies make demands. They sometimes don't understand what's inherent in the demand. Microsoft can't create these documents overnight.
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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.