The interesting long-term question: how can Microsoft expand the use of Kinect beyond gaming?
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Similar to how Google or Microsoft can consolidate the entire Web within a common index, new technologies enable powerful information mash-ups across complex and secure enterprise information.
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Sony is refining what we can do, (Dust514), while Microsoft is refining how we can pay, (DRM, banned accounts, one time use codes, ect).
At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, Microsoft showed how Bing can let you play games in search, IM people in Windows or Facebook a the same time, plan air travel, even choose and watch television or listen to music.
In demonstrations, Microsoft employees showed how Kinect can be used for video chats as well as to listen to music and watch movies with friends in other locations.
Apple Chief Steve Jobs could be about to pull off yet another neat piece of jujitsu, using the limits placed by Microsoft on how netbook makers can use its software to set Apple apart from its low-end competitors.
Below you can see how improved operating margins for this segment can help Microsoft.
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In light of its fresh tie-up with Microsoft, we can understand how any LG smartphone not running WinMo might be perceived as a black sheep this week.
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If you can, check out how Microsoft intends to deliver on this vision at the Microsoft Management Summit happening this week at the Mandalay Bay Conventions Center in Las Vegas.
Those documents were a long time coming, but they have now forced Microsoft to show other software makers how their programs can work with its ubiquitous Windows operating system.
They would be astonished to see how success (Microsoft being the most dramatic example) can actually arouse the ire of government because entrepreneurs don't have to get political permission to move ahead.
Of course not, although I can read Microsoft's views on how the U.S. Department of Justice is crippling its "Freedom to Innovate" if I want.
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The major beneficiaries should be the normal suspects such as Google and Facebook with gains by Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo and others dependent on how they can leverage their positions.
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith is trying to figure out how Europe can balance its local needs to have some sorts of data located within its borders with the need to get the economy of scale promised by cloud computing.
Microsoft charges partners to use Windows Phone 7 and places limits on how they can alter the software.
In previous articles, I outline this writing on the long-term wall. (Most recently, see Tim Cook Has No Idea How to Move Forward With Apple TV, but also see more bullish takes, such as Microsoft Can Beat RIM, but Stands No Chance Against Apple).
Microsoft hopes it will juice up the traffic on its search engine, ultimately improving how much it can earn from click advertising.
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