[John Montgomery, director for the Developer Division at Microsoft, laid it out even more simply.] The story, in a nutshell, is there's a complex ecosystem that sits around developing applications and making money off of them, ... And Microsoft has shown itself [to be] pretty good time and again at figuring out how people can make money off of its products. |
All they have to do is sneeze and the stock price gets cut in half. And they still could be overvalued. |
An EV is the perfect second car for Port Townsend. |
By Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, all of our RVs will be in Louisiana. |
Hard Rock has this cachet and image that can't be under-valued. I think if it had gone to Vail, for example, which already has a number of world-class hotels, the impact wouldn't have been as great. |
I don't feel like the Hanover voters rejected us last time. I feel like I failed in communicating with them. |
I have a steel stomach. |
I think there will be significant interest. |
I think this has the potential to be one of the sexiest projects we have seen in years. |
I think this is a pretty innovative solution. There are a lot of things you can do as a private company that you can't as a public one. |
I've got 20 years of experience finding common sense solutions to problems. Not just plans, but execution in getting things done. |
If anything fails, they fail the whole thing, and it gets pushed back to you. |
If cash levels are higher, that's good. Portfolio managers tend to get it wrong. They misread the market. |
In case you don't know, the VS and .Net Framework development teams have a customer board building applications on our beta software, and we need them all to say we're good to go before we can ship (or to tell us that their development schedule doesn't allow them to upgrade to the latest release candidate and thereby excuse themselves from the process), ... So yesterday we got the signoff from the 24 customers (any one of whom can stop our ship cycle). |
In case you don't know, the VS and .Net Framework development teams have a customer board building applications on our beta software, and we need them all to say we're good to go before we can ship (or to tell us that their development schedule doesn't allow them to upgrade to the latest release candidate and thereby excuse themselves from the process). So yesterday we got the signoff from the 24 customers (any one of whom can stop our ship cycle). |