Rob Helm Quotes

The Windows Client division has to tell corporate customers why they want Windows Vista, and why they shouldn't wait until they buy new hardware. - Rob Helm

The rumored deal would disappoint Microsoft. - Rob Helm

My sense is that the development and marketing effort [of MSN] will go into Windows Live... The MSN brand will stick around but it seems like the machines, the people and the services will be there, but more and more of them will be called Windows Live. - Rob Helm

Microsoft's server and tools unit has proved they can take something like Web 2.0 and make it easier to program for. It has a very viable business model there. - Rob Helm

Microsoft's engineers have been griping about too much bureaucracy, and this reorganization runs counter to it. It is bound to cause some discussion among employees as you are essentially putting a business manager on top of a very technical group. - Rob Helm

Microsoft sees software as a service as a part-answer to the maturing software market. - Rob Helm

Microsoft is maturing, and they really need marketing and sales people at the top, but I am not sure employees want to hear [that]. - Rob Helm

Microsoft is going to feel the pain: over 80 percent of desktop Windows are through sales of new PCs. - Rob Helm

Its engineers have not necessarily proven that they can ship software on time. Maybe Microsoft needs less heroic engineering and more of a business focus. - Rob Helm

It would have been a very tight squeeze. If they were going to miss Christmas, there just wasn't a good reason to push it for 2006. - Rob Helm

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