Q&A With Microsoft
Microsoft has just ended their press conference in Barcelona, Spain, And they’re taking a moment to do a Q&A session. I am transcribing these questions live for you to read them.
“With such a proliferation of platforms, all of which are free, will microsoft will ever reconsider its policy of charging for licenses?”
“There’s something easy to understand about our model: We build a model, we sell them. We only have one or two competitors who are on a model of free, and that might work for them. Our model is clear and direct, we plan on staying on that model.”
“With windows phone 7 consistency, How are you going to allow your partners to differentiate themselves?”
“We make it so that the UI is extensible rather than replaced. The problem with replacing is that the UI ecosystem is fighting with each other. Having consistency provides an overall better user experience. But the UI is very extensible.” Surprising!
Ballmer: As an old-timer, let me remind you, maybe the first time I heard this discussion is when we moved from DOS to Windows, there was consistency about windows that we didnt have in DOS, turns everybody wound up creating a bigger pool of opportunity through that transition, I think when we look back 3 to 5 years from now we will see a lot of innovation and everybody will be pleased we could do that on top of a higher foundation instead of having everybody replumb the lower level guts of the user interface”
Are you going to support Adobe Flash in any way?
“We don’t have Adobe Flash support in Windows Phone 7 out of the gate.”
Steve Ballmer adds “We have no objection to Adobe Flash support ”
“Im afraid that’s all we have for time, thank you so much for attending!”
[ Mobile World Congress 2010 ]
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