Pieter Knook, Senior VP for Microsoft Talks About How Microsoft is Ready to Take on RIM

[Jerry Raia]

http://www.microsoft.com/msft/speec...ookFAM2005.mspx

"...this audience, particularly from a personal usage standpoint, is a challenging one for us. It's the one that uses a lot of BlackBerry products, and I'm going to spend a little bit of time talking about how we're going to compete for mobile information workers, such as many of you sitting in this room. And there are many elements to that competition, the first of which is a focus on how do we do as a business and how our business model works. When you look at how we've been doing, you see a lot of growth, but the growth as a business has many components to it; the connected devices component, for example, to our overall business has been growing much faster. You'll see in a subsequent slide I talk about 150 percent growth just in that connected device segment, which is one of the key elements."

This of course makes me very happy because I don't have too much affection for RIM. It is a long piece and there is a PowerPoint presentation as well if you are interested. I think Microsoft will win this contest in the end because of the compatibility with the desktop. What do you think?
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[Kris Kumar]

I am impressed.

But will wait for the comments from the Exchange users/administrators.

[GadgetDave]