Analyze this: Roger McNamee on Microsoft's strategy
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In this podcast, Roger offers his incisive take on Microsoft's future-- competition; issues of culture and scale; getting traction with an advertising business model; building content platforms; and making acquisitions. He also gives me a progress report on Elevation Partners' mission and investments--move.com (real estate services) and Bioware and Pandemic Studios (game development)--and offers his perspective on the rapid growth of consumer-generated content sites like YouTube and MySpace.
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You can listen to the complete podcast of Roger's interview with Ballmer here...