IBM says we have a team of consultants and we can help you innovate. But at the end of the day, unlocking people potential is better. Having people collaborate to make the right decision is more productive. |
If we don't innovate, we don't have new versions. Nobody needs to upgrade. Nobody needs to buy. We have to have a variety of ways to innovate?We're at the beginning of 12 months of the greatest innovation pipeline that our company has ever had. |
If you can find a classic enterprise piece of software that sells for a few hundred dollars, then its maintenance, too, might have to be a little higher than the percent people think of as typical, ... I don't seriously propose it, but the way to get the percentage down would have been to raise the price of the original license, which I don't think anybody would have liked either. I think the Software Assurance price is a fair price. |
If you look at our track record over time, investors who have been with us long term are very happy with the kind of returns that they have received, ... I'd encourage investors to again take that long term outlook. |
If you look at the dollars, everything about our prices are quite different than classic enterprise software. |
IM inter-operability is the right thing for our customers, our businesses and the industry as a whole, |
IM inter-operability is the right thing for our customers, our businesses and the industry as a whole. |
IM interoperability is the right thing for our customers, our businesses and the industry as a whole, and Microsoft is delighted to help lead these efforts with Yahoo, |
IM interoperability is the right thing for our customers, our businesses and the industry as a whole, and Microsoft is delighted to help lead these efforts with Yahoo. |
In every other generation, the first guy to 10 million consoles was the number one seller in the generation. |
In general, 50 percent of searches do not lead to the desired outcome. Does anybody not believe that the search experience is going to be dramatically better 10 years from now? Does anybody deny it would be nice to search within the enterprise and outside the enterprise? |
In terms of people taking advantage of the Internet, I think we can talk about this generation of browser essentially as about the equivalence of DOS. |
In the last year and a half we've done a lot of revamping of the engineering and the processes, |
In the last year and a half we've done a lot of revamping of the engineering and the processes. |
In the short term, I would be surprised if consumers saw any kind of immediate change. |