Instead of there being one big cloud or datacenter being hosted by Microsoft, there will be multiple smaller clouds hosting these services such as ISPs and other providers right out of the box. |
It makes sense for both parties to focus on what's core. |
It's been floating around in one form or another. It is sort of an unfortunate consequence of the freedom the Internet offers. |
It's possible for folks to ask customers to give them more data, but we will make it very clear what information goes to Passport and what goes to the partners, |
Like when you go into business in any country, you do it in full compliance with the laws and regulations of that country. It's not something we think twice about. |
Microsoft typically does not comment on specific government inquiries. That said, as you may have heard from the DOJ, they did contact us in this case. We take the privacy of our customers very seriously. We did comply with their request for data in this case in a way that ensured we also protected the privacy of our customers. |
Once you sell it, it's sold. Anything that would let the previous owner come back and make demands is not something we'd agree to. |
Rob Glaser went before the U.S. Senate and said, 'Windows is breaking my software, let me tell you how.' In fact, it does not. |
Ten years ago it was a venture to really think deeply about how you merge traditional media with new media. It made sense at the time. |
The goal is to work towards rapidly prototyping new products and services. |
The government is clearly as adept a PR machine as there ever was one. |
The partnership allows us to focus on growing the online venture. |
These are tools that help people better visualize and connect to the information they care about. |
They had nothing to do with each other. It's like comparing apples and oranges. |
This action will not have any impact on the release date of Windows 98. We expect it to ship as scheduled on June 25. |