Tom Bittman
Tom Bittman
network shifting social word
Where I do my word processing, how I collaborate, maintaining my social network . . . those things are shifting away from Microsoft.
hands major strategy
Obviously, his hands are all over the .Net strategy, the strategy with the Xbox, and any major acquisition.
behind desktop money saving
Desktop virtualization is about two years behind server virtualization. It's a completely different trend. While server virtualization is about saving money and consolidation, on the desktop it's much more about isolation, about being able to do different things on the same machine.
cool deliver
They deliver cool stuff, Vista is cool. But the most interesting place to be is not Microsoft; they have to make it interesting.
case current major operating safe system
It is safe to say that the current antitrust case has major long-term implications for Microsoft's operating system plans.
microsoft small
You would think that with Microsoft coming, that the small vendors would collapse. But Microsoft is really, really late.
built decision left mainly operations
He built this company. I think that he's really left the day-to-day operations to (CEO Steve) Ballmer, but he is still mainly there as a high-level decision maker.