It's actually very crucial for the financial model to be based on end-users paying for the value they receive. It's a reboot of the Internet business model.

the right server for the right job.

[The second was the first beta of Windows Compute Cluster Solution, a version of the OS aimed at scientific and financial customers who need compute-intensive systems consisting of large server clusters. This is part of Microsoft's push into high-performance computing environments, areas where it's not been particularly successful, and where Unix rules.] The problem is a compute cluster solution has not been delivered by Microsoft [in the past], ... Our goal is to build a complete platform here. Compute Cluster allows people to build applications that scale across a large number of machines.

Disk-based backup is still in the early stages of adoption in enterprises, and, even then, it is mostly limited to high-end enterprises,

We see this as an important step in our efforts to work cooperatively with the [mobile-phone] industry.

Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.