Comments on: Microsoft exec takes on services, Google

Chief of Microsoft's server and tools talks about new services, building OSes and dealing with the Justice Department.

[jeromatron]

"We'll make money where we've always made money."

"We'll make money where we've always made money."
We plan to get people to use our tools by leveraging our current
monopoly and embracing and extending the standards with
things like Atlas. We plan to play up the fact that Google is
secretive because investors are already annoyed and so their
stock will go down. We plan to make as many web services and
things like that for free so that we can cut off Google's air supply
while we make money in other areas. So yes, we will make
money in the long run, but it will be a long drawn out, illegal,
and innovation-stifling process. It always is.

[jeromatron]

I'm kidding, kind of

With that last post I'm kind of kidding, but it *is* hard for Microsoft
to do anything but what their management has always done, that is
be aggressive and do anything necessary to take over a market.
That's proven to be illegal in some areas and innovation-stifling in
some areas (such as IE and Windows and their luxuriously long
development cycles after they obtained a monopoly).

[lgmbackman]

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