(The comments) were just unfortunate, |
[But with more of these authentication services emerging,] How many Internet trust brokers will there be? ... Governments think they're in the business of managing identities. |
[In Europe,] there seems to be much more ambivalence ... about whether there are elite places. |
As we've learned ? or really re-learned ? one can't build a business or our economic future on that type of flimsy foundation. |
But it is always a challenge to commercialize those inventions. |
China has a lot of capability, |
could be a serious problem downstream in the society here. |
I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another. |
I love what Nick is trying to do. We have a lot of concerns about the sustainability of his approach. |
If they slide too far, they'll find themselves in the same situation as the Xbox did when they launched the PS2 a year before we entered. That's a hill to climb. |
In some senses, it is easy to poke fun or think you know what is going on by looking in from the outside, ... The company is clear about what it wants to do. There is no civil war at the management level. |
India produces a lot of engineers. But the production of computer science engineers is low, pro rata. Computer engineers are more into theory and less in managing businesses, building businesses or writing source codes, the key to software development, |
Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source. |
Microsoft has no beef with open source, ... We happen to like and will continue to pursue commercial software as a business model Microsoft believes in. Ultimately, the market will tell us if that choice is a good one. |
The Internet ... was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer, |