Xbox One Key To 'One Microsoft'

[starlight777]

Xbox One Key To 'One Microsoft'

http://www.informationweek.com/soft...-xbox-one-key-to-one-microsoft/d/d-id/1112761

Microsoft's Xbox One isn't just about taking over the living room. It's a proving ground for CEO Steve Ballmer's "One Microsoft" vision.


Microsoft sold more than 1 million Xbox Ones within 24 hours of the console's Friday launch. Sony's PlayStation 4 sold at about the same rate when it debuted the week before.


The launch is auspicious, if not necessarily extraordinary. It's been seven years since Microsoft released the Xbox 360, after all; with so much pent-up demand, an early rush of sales was inevitable.


Here's what's more important than day-one sales: whether the Xbox One's performance remains strong enough to affirm the consumer-oriented aspects of retiring CEO Steve Ballmer's "One Microsoft" strategy.



Microsoft director John Thompson, who leads the CEO selection committee, has repeatedly stated that the company's next CEO will use the blueprint Ballmer has already established. But you wouldn't expect him to say anything else; otherwise, he'd be dooming products like the Surface Pro 2 and the Xbox One before they'd even had a chance.

 

[Mr Bigglesworth]

Would be a shame to abandon the vision. They have something special with this box.

 

[starseeker]

I am the one.

Xbox One Key To 'One Microsoft'

Microsoft director John Thompson, who leads the CEO selection committee, has repeatedly stated that the company's next CEO will use the blueprint Ballmer has already established. But you wouldn't expect him to say anything else; otherwise, he'd be dooming products like the Surface Pro 2 and the Xbox One before they'd even had a chance.

Yeah, lets drop the product that sold over 1 million day one....

 

[JamOnIt]

E-Petition to keep Ballmer in office because I certainly don't want to be the one to tell my wife she lugged this console around with her and now we gotta get rid. I jest!