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2005-01-06-msComes

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Das Gates-Interview zum Feiertag.

Of note:

IPTV — "[T]he new TV infrastructure will be about very targeted advertising."

"[W]e need to integrate more blogging capability into the e-mail world--and as we do the next generation of Outlook, you'll see that. We need to integrate it more into our SharePoint, which is our collaboration Office platform, and then, as I discussed, MSN is embracing it [...]"

"I'd kind of like to [set up a weblog], but I've got to be sure I can keep going for at least a year to make it worth doing."

"[I]n the same way that Macintosh helped get people exposed to the graphical user interface, the iPod is doing a great job getting people to think about digital music." — Thanks for all the getting people to think! ~~Including us!~~ — "In the long run, there will be a lot of people making digital music players, and we think that there will be a very different market share with dozens and dozens of companies. And other than Apple, all those player makers are signing up to work inside the Windows PlaysForSure ecosystem." — Or was it PaysForSure?

"[T]he fact that Sony's a little distracted with that may let us do all the better in the next generation."

"In terms of our agility to do things on the browser, people who underestimated us there in the past lived to regret that."

"If we thought somebody was doing the best possible job that could ever be done in search and there wasn't some big revenue out there, maybe we wouldn't do it, but quite to the contrary. Whether it's understanding maps or virtual worlds or document analysis, today's search is nothing [...]"

"We've been very generous to make sure that when people first come into computing, software [cost] doesn't hold them back."

"We, with our Office franchise, are committed to making workers far, far more productive than they are today." — Office ganz einzustellen wäre vielleicht ein guter erster Schritt ...

Ganz der alte.