Microsoft would certainly benefit if say a Comcast or some other broadband providers with popular portals chose MSN as the default search.

If you run Windows on a Mac, it's another copy for Microsoft. Better yet, it's on a competitor's hardware. It would be like Microsoft taking it to Apple's home field.

It looks like Microsoft missed the major upgrade cycle from 2004 to early this year. Windows Vista would have been a much better story in 2005 than in 2006, or, realistically, 2007.

[The lesson both Microsoft and Linux supporters should take from the survey results?] Nobody buys an operating system, ... They buy applications. The operating system is there for the application.

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal with all the issues associated with a pleasant and easy experience with voice and with video, we think that takes a systems company not just a software company to do it right.