Advogato on MS Strategy: Microsoft's next phase of growth will be driven by Xbox users authenticated via Passport consuming .net hosted services delivered over cable or ADSL to their homes and being billed for those services by the cable or telco company. Only the cable and telco companies have the billing infrastructure and customer relationship to collect micro payments for .net hosted services. Only by disguising the client PC as a games console can MS get into the homes that aren't interested in computers or the Internet per se. By encouraging as many developers as possible onto the .net server platform it will ensure that compelling content and services will be created, and that MS can collect revenues for the delivery of those services. Passport will be used to match the users to the cable company's customer records. B |
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