Microsoft .Net Confusion
Come again? Pigs will shortly be sailing past my window. Ballmer and Allchin confess they still don't know where they're going with the .Net project:
In surprisingly candid interviews with CNET News.com at company headquarters here, Ballmer and other top executives recently acknowledged that Microsoft is still in search of a business plan for the initiative and has not determined how to make money on .Net My Services, nearly a year after it was announced.
Ballmer said Microsoft has "put a lot of good talent" on the project but "could have mixed a little more business talent in with the technical talent...Sometimes we give too many bodies but not enough senior bodies."
He and Allchin are both critical of the original .Net My Services business strategy.
Once you get past the initial surprise that they've been so clear about their difficulties, the key change in their strategy for .Net seems to be that they no longer aspire to host all the data via Passport authentication, but that they will federate access to web services with authentication and data hosted by other people. Seems like bloggers weren't the only ones unhappy putting all their eggs in Microsoft's basket - Tony Scott, a chief technology officer at General Motors:
"We have made the point with them multiple times: If you believe consumers or businesses want to put all of their eggs in one basket, that's just not a model that flies"
(via Tomalak's Realm)
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