Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
“We have the Vista and Office 2007. A lot of people will be impressed
by these, and also by what we offer in Zune and what they have seen in
XBox 360. We continue to gain share in terms of the core platform to
build applications - .Net versus Java; Windows versus Linux. So there
are a lot of areas where we have made fantastic progress. And they
(Google) are the search leaders. I agree they are the search leaders.
It’s nice to have a good competitor.”
Search is the entry point for many people on
the Web. It is also the entry point for corporate intranets, and it
will continue to be one of the most sought-after applications on the
Web.
“With the media moving into an interactive zone, digital advertising
would emerge with multiple touch points like Web, video, mobile and
gaming consoles,” Ballmer added
Unlike corporate leaders who are wary of directly naming their
competitors in public, Ballmer had no qualms about mentioning IBM,
Google and Yahoo while talking about the competition.
When asked why the regulators were coming down heavily on Microsoft, his blunt reply was success.
“They are going after our success. Our competitors, most probably IBM,
I’d say, have worked hard to get the government to be its ally on the
regulatory front. I find it unfortunate but it apparently is the way of
world.”
And, did he agree with analysts who predict that the bulk of innovation in next 10-20 years will take place in Asia?
“There will be a lot of great innovation coming from many parts of the
world. I am not going to say that per capita you are going to get more
innovation in Asia than you will in Western Europe and in the US.
“I frankly do not think it depends very much on national origin. I
actually think it depends on people. And so it is a bit of a random
shot – where are you going to find the next great entrepreneur... he
might happen to be in India, might happen to be China, in Seattle,
Atlanta, in Germany. So I don’t think great innovation is as sensitive
to national origin as it is to individual talent and people,” he said.
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