Its engineers have not necessarily proven that they can ship software on time. Maybe Microsoft needs less heroic engineering and more of a business focus.
If you look at Microsoft's two biggest businesses, Windows and Office, they don't have an obvious Web 2.0 play. But the server and tools business at Microsoft has a vested interested in making Web 2.0 work, and they have a strategy to do it.
I hope, and in fact I know, that they didn't just represent what is best about North Carolina. They represented what is best about America.
He is his same self in a lot of ways. He just doesn't always remember.
He goes to the office everyday and sees his friends and has lunch and shoots the bull, ... I think he is doing well. He will be 84 next month. I don't know many people that age who don't have problems.
Microsoft is going to feel the pain: over 80 percent of desktop Windows are through sales of new PCs.
Microsoft's server and tools unit has proved they can take something like Web 2.0 and make it easier to program for. It has a very viable business model there.
Microsoft's engineers have been griping about too much bureaucracy, and this reorganization runs counter to it. It is bound to cause some discussion among employees as you are essentially putting a business manager on top of a very technical group.
Microsoft sees software as a service as a part-answer to the maturing software market.
Certainly, before anybody jumps on the president for this six-month suspension, it would be wise to consider the other salutary initiatives that the president is putting into force. The president is, in fact, taking a very tough line which is certain to make Fidel Castro squirm,
