Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
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.
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.
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.
compete europe government include markets microsoft monopoly operating product says unified windows
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.
areas clear delivering improvement product room timely
There's room for improvement in areas such as clear product roadmaps and delivering timely updates,
challenge chance good growth microsoft older overcome perception products rate versions
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.
higher product versions
Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.
awkward devices exists fit hard market occupies position product sure time
Honestly, I'm having a hard time envisioning where this product will fit into consumers' lives. It occupies an awkward position between single-function handheld devices and laptops. I'm not sure a market exists here.
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.
asking customers knows putting sales talks time
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.
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.
design fairly reference sure third
I'm fairly sure this will be a reference design for third parties.