Microsoft is maturing, and they really need marketing and sales people at the top, but I am not sure employees want to hear [that]. |
Microsoft sees software as a service as a part-answer to the maturing software market. |
Microsoft's engineers have been griping about too much bureaucracy, and this reorganization runs counter to it. It is bound to cause some discussion among employees as you are essentially putting a business manager on top of a very technical group. |
Microsoft's server and tools unit has proved they can take something like Web 2.0 and make it easier to program for. It has a very viable business model there. |
My sense is that the development and marketing effort [of MSN] will go into Windows Live, ... The MSN brand will stick around but it seems like the machines, the people and the services will be there, but more and more of them will be called Windows Live. |
My sense is that the development and marketing effort [of MSN] will go into Windows Live. The MSN brand will stick around but it seems like the machines, the people and the services will be there, but more and more of them will be called Windows Live. |
The rumored deal would disappoint Microsoft. |
The Windows Client division has to tell corporate customers why they want Windows Vista, and why they shouldn't wait until they buy new hardware. |
There has to be a few widely accepted cards -- kind of the Visa and MasterCard of the identity world -- and it's not clear that anyone wants that job. |
There have been real attacks; this is not theoretical. All you have to do is go to an evil Web site or click on a link in an e-mail and some hacker dude owns your computer. |
There have been real attacks; this is not theoretical. All you have to do is go to an evil website or click on a link in an email and some hacker dude owns your computer. |
There was a perception that a major change had to happen. |
There were political problems and technical problems. The two divisions have different business incentives, and the company, knowingly or unknowingly, set up a situation where their business incentives were not the same as their technology incentives. |
They needed a very senior engineer who could knock heads together when disputes arose and had backing from senior management. Steve is really tailor-made for the job. |
This is Microsoft talking to businesses about why it's a good IT vendor and particularly why its different from IBM. |