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      Key Topics: Applications, Business Models, IP Telephony, Marketing, Mobility, Unified communications

  6. Quotes

    1. “ We will continue to support non-Microsoft platforms because it's fundamental to the value proposition of communications. ”
      In Microsoft Skype: How the VCs won and Ballmer overpaid
    2. “ It's obvious that not everybody is participating in video from a phone at this point, but we can stitch our customer bases together, and allow more people to do things like connecting to meetings through video conferencing. ”
      In Microsoft-Skype combo targets video, mobile, carriers
    3. “ While Microsoft will support the top phone platforms with our cloud services. ”
      In Microsoft’s Bing To Power BlackBerry Search
    4. “ Windows support for SoC is an important step for Microsoft and for the industry. ”
      In Will Microsoft’s ‘iPad Killer’ Tablet Ever Appear?
    5. “ I was flattered to see that our visual differentiation has been a source of concern to Google. ”
      In Ballmer Takes Swipe At Google Over Design Changes
    6. “ We're going to sell like crazy; we're going to market like crazy ”
      In Ballmer: "We're Coming Full Guns"
    7. “ As soon as they are ready, they will be shipping as soon as they are ready. ”
      In Ballmer and Softies sacrifice sleep to catch iPad
    8. “ Interesting job of putting together synthesis and putting a product out in which they've sold more than I'd like them to sell - let me just be clear about that. We think about that, we think about that in competitive sense. ”
      In Ballmer and Softies sacrifice sleep to catch iPad
    9. “ You will get a lot of cacophony, people do things with other operating systems, but we have the application base, we have the user familiarity, we have everything on our side if we do things really right. ”
      In Ballmer and Softies sacrifice sleep to catch iPad
    10. “ There will be general purpose devices in the world. ”
      In Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Says PCs Are Here to Stay and Devices Like Tablets Are Nothing More Than PCs

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      Explore Skype Journal (Jan 10 2012)

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    7. Yahoo! fires! CEO! Carol! Bartz!

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    11. Microsoft Shows Off Upcoming Windows Phones

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    16. Microsoft Skype: How the VCs won and Ballmer overpaid

      Explore The Register (May 10 2011) Business Models , Marketing

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