Tuesday, October 19, 2004

The fundamental vision that we have of digital entertainment anywhere is one that resonates with where consumers are today.

They want to be able to have their photos that they took last weekend of their kids in their back pocket when they go out to dinner with some friends. They want to be able to have the [recorded] TV show available to them on their laptop when they're on the airplane and they have time to watch it. They want to be able to quickly download the highlights from the Major League Baseball game yesterday and have it on their Portable Media Center to look at the bar with friends tonight.

That is the lifestyle where people have really brought digital media of all kinds into their life and now they want to make it easy and convenient to consume that media wherever they go.

There's no question that the Windows platform and the partners that we work with enable that better than anybody else simply by nature of the extensibility of the system. You can't go and extend a PlayStation; you can't go and add more features to a TiVo. You have to wait for TiVo to do it; you have to wait for Sony to do it.

Whereas somebody can go and build new experiences for a Media Center PC. ... The value of the platform is that the entire ecosystem can participate in the richness of the platform and delivering products to customers. And I think that puts Windows in a uniquely strong position to deliver on the vision of digital entertainment anywhere.