While we continue to make good progress on many fronts, a set of very strong and determined competitors is laser-focused on Internet services and service-enabled software,
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Just as in the past, we must reflect upon what's going on around us, and reflect upon our strengths, weaknesses and industry leadership responsibilities, and respond, ... As much as ever, it's clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know it is at risk. We must respond quickly and decisively.Ray Ozzie
An amazing number of developers use the Microsoft tools. I am very, very passionate about how services can be brought to bear to help those people make money.
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Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.
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We will design and license Windows and our Internet-based services as separate products, so customers can choose Windows with or without Microsoft's services, ... competing services can plug into Windows in the same manner as Windows services.
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In just a few weeks time, several Microsoft product groups ... built prototypes and demos, and found that it works and interoperates quite nicely,
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