Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff
central entertainment helps home microsoft pcs perpetuate windows
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.
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.
itself left microsoft
What's left under MSN -- MSNBC? Microsoft just divested itself of that, too.
search sell
MSN may want to sell search to AOL.
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 boring business cool customers danger decisions features kinds lose lower maybe people pushed sight technology wrapped
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.
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.
constant
They want to have more of a constant supply.
few further likely moved
They have really just moved a few things around. There will likely be further reorganizations down the line.
money prove tools windows xbox year
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.
increase search year
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.
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.