Cnet’s Molly Wood & Ina Fried got a chance to sit down Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer at the Redmond Campus to talk a bit about Microsoft’s current and future strategy. Topics discussed are today’s economic situation, the Windows 7 launch, apple advertising etc.. When asked about the Microsoft Courier tablet protoype, Steve gave no comment and just said:
“Oh, there’s definitely a market for computers that you can mark on,” […]
“So, I don’t see that market going away, and certainly Apple — I’m sure Apple will bring a unique point of view. They tend to bring unique points of view to things. And yet we’ve got great people doing great stuff, and let’s see what the competition has.”
When asked about the Zune HD and why there’s no third-party appstore, Steve replied by saying that he sees the Zune HD as a PMP and that the Zune:
“What is Zune HD? Zune HD is a couple things. Number one, Zune HD is a music player, a nice music service. By the way, the same software will be available on Windows Phones and Windows PCs. You have that today on the PC, you’ll see that in our phone environment as well.”
I heard that it should be announced during PDC 09 (for WM6.5 phones). Steve also said that The Zune HD hardware is to show Windows Mobile ODMs/OEMs what they can/should do with Windows Phones and that Microsoft is not planning to build a phone anytime soon.
” Ballmer said. “At the end of the day, I think the model of a software company partnering with a lot of handset vendors is powerful. It’s powerful relative to what you see from folks like Palm and Blackberry and Apple.”
Source: Cnet
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