I'm fairly sure this will be a reference design for third parties. |
If it gets worse and Microsoft doesn't deal well with it, they have a problem. |
If you think things are not being run well, then yesterday will lend credence to your arguments. |
It looks like it's another effort to popularize the tablet PC, this time in a smaller form factor. |
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. |
It's sort of a response to the whole way computing is evolving. |
Microsoft believes it can deliver services that businesses are really demanding, integrating them better with one another and with Microsoft software, |
Microsoft's biggest concern is the precedent whereby a government agency can dictate what it can and cannot put into its core product. |
Microsoft's hand was really forced here. |
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. |
MSN may want to sell search to AOL. |
Open-source would love to get its hands on the Microsoft [Server] source code. |
Realizing it will take a while to get these documents where the EC wants them, Microsoft decided to buy a little bit of time by releasing the source code while it continues to work on the documentation. I think they are going to have to continue improving that documentation. |
Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be. |
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. |