Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
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,
services windows
A lot of the Windows Live services are things that had already been in development by MSN,
apple available company concern dominant ensure entertainment home keeping main microsoft none partner pc possible readily services
The main thing for Microsoft as a company is to get as much use as possible for the PC as a home entertainment device, and one way to do that is ensure that there is a lot of readily available content. Their concern is that none of the partner services will take off or will be effective, keeping Apple as a dominant platform.
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.
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.
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.
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.
actual predicted revenue xbox
The big disparity between predicted and actual revenue was, in fact, Xbox shortages.
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.
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.
demanded eu related specific
They are licensing a specific subset related to the protocols the EU demanded more documentation on.