Game Exec Talks About Microsoft's Pivotal Year
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Shane Kim, VP of Microsoft Game Studios, is facing tough competition on a shifting playing field. Wired.com chats him up at the DICE conference.
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Microsoft Corp. Chief  Financial Officer Chris Liddell on Wednesday said the world's  largest software company still expected revenue to grow 13  percent to 15 percent for the current fiscal year.
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Gabe: Wired has a pretty big article about Penny Arcade in it's latest issue. We've done a lot of interviews but Wired actually sent a writer named Chris Baker out to spend a few days in our office. Sort of like a geek version of Jane Goodall, He hung out with us all day and took notes while we played games and made the comic. Chris interviewed everyone here and even found time to question our wives and friends. Living with us the way he did I think he managed to get some pretty candid stuff out of Tycho and I. Things we might never have divulged during a standard interview. By the end of the week I think we all considered Chris a friend and a valuable addition to any Halo 3 team. The resulting article is a pretty complete look at our little company here as well as the most honest interview I think anyone's ever managed to get out of us. If you're interested you can read it online right here.   -Gabe out
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Picking the year's best and worst video games can be a lot harder than playing them. 2004 was a great year for gamers, with some of the most anticipated games of all time being released.
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After a year as Microsoft Corp.'s chief Linux strategist, Martin Taylor has a lot to say about where he sees Linux going and how Microsoft plans to compete with the open-source operating system.
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In South by Southwest keynote, legendary game designer explains his high-velocity approach to telling stories and shows off Spore.Images: Will Wright talks 'Spore' at SWSX
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The last 12 months have been one of the best years in video game history, both critically and commercially.
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Wired.com speaks to Yannis Mallat, CEO of Ubisoft's Montreal game development studio, on topics ranging from emotion in game design to casual games and Wii.
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Video game maker needs to work on its brand management.
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Could the Xbox 2 be revealed in January? Bill Gates will be delivering the keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January 2005, and it is quite possibleâeven likelyâthat
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This article is the first in a new, regular series of articles and interviews with top Microsoft program managers. Our goal is to give you a close-up, helpful and informative look at things
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Telling video game developers at the Game Developer Conference to resist producing hit sequels and games of horror and revenge, Nintendo's top designer wants to bring joy to the widest audience. By the Associated Press. Plus: Keynote disappoints in GameLife.
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Ah, what a difference a year makes. At the beginning of last year&#39;s E3 tradeshow, one of the most visible gatherings of the video game industry, Sony and Microsoft were belles of the ball, and Nintendo was a Cinderella still in rags.
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Microsoft Corp. Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell on Wednesday said the world's largest software company still expected revenue to grow 13 percent to 15 percent for the current fiscal year.
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The focus of this year's E3 Media and Business Summit was the hundreds of video games that will be debuting in the coming months and years.
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(InfoWorld) - This year in IT has been anything but dull as industry titans Bill Gates and Scott McNealy prepared to exit stage right, long-time bitter foes Novell and Microsoft cuddled up and Hewlett-Packard saw a spying scandal shred its reputation. There was plenty of commentary to accompany all that activity, so let's check out some of the most quote-worthy artifacts of the past year. Good night and good luck "I'm thrilled not to have to be CEO anymore. That was a temporary thing that I took on about 22 years ago." --Â Scott McNealy on handing overÂ CEO honorsÂ at Sun Microsystems to ponytailed whippersnapper President Jonathan Schwartz. McNealy appeared upbeat despite having failed to fully reverse the company's poor financial performance. "The world has had a tendency to focus a disproportionate amount of attention on me." --Â Bill Gates, claiming he won't be missedÂ all that much as he steps away from his daily chief software architect role at Microsoft come July 2008 to focus on his charity organization. Gates will remain as company chairman "indefinitely." Sure, we love Linux, we just love Windows more "If you want something, I'm still going to tell you [to buy] Windows, Windows, Windows." --Â Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, aiming to "bridge the divide"Â between open-source and proprietary software with a surprise partnership with Novell. Sounds like he hasn't got that whole co-opetition thing straight yet, ditto on what the whole lovefest means for patents, with the vendors differing on their interpretations of what the deal will mean. "I prefer to be an optimist, and will happily take the option that not everybody needs to be enemies." --Â Mr. Maverick himself, Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, with his sunny take on Microsoft/Novell, at odds with the disgust voiced by many in the open-source community with the Suse distributor.Â  Could've, would've, should've ... didn't "I understand there is also a written report of the investigation addressed to me and others, but I did not read it. I could have, and I should have." -- Mark Hurd, Hewlett-Packard's embattled CEO, stating the obvious over his failure to peruse key information describing the company's bizarre attempts to unearth the source who leaked board-level confidences.Â  "If I knew then what I know now, I would have done things differently." --Â Patricia Dunn, HP's former chairman, testifyingÂ before a U.S. Congress subcommittee about those techniques Hurd didn't bother to look into, which included pretexting. Forced out of HP in the wake of the spy scandal, Dunn continues to maintain the methods were legal. After all, she was assured of their legality by HP's own lawyers.Â  Touching evil "We actually did an evil scale and decided not to serve at all was worse evil." --Â Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, about the year-long soul-searching process that the company went through before deciding to offer a censored version of its services in China. Google famously espouses the "don't be evil" credo.Â  That competitive spirit "We will compete like gentlemen. We'll come in with swords, not bombs and guns, and fence." --Â Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, describing how the vendor is balancing a desire to stomp all over Microsoft in the small to midsize business (SMB) applications market while simultaneously cuddling up to the Redmond Rampager to make sweet music around their joint Duet product.Â  "This is capitalism; we're competing." --Â Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, giving his spin on why his company is offering "enterprise support" for Red Hat Inc.'s Linux distribution; other than push down Red Hat's share price and potentially put the vendor out of business that is.Â  Telling it like it is "I think my response was 'What idiot dreamed this up?'" --Â Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer, in typical blunt manner, remembering her reaction to the company's scheme to brand its databases as "unbreakable."Â  "Anybody [in the Internet space] who wasn't interested in YouTube was either asleep or not being honest." --Â Jonathan Miller, AOL chairman and CEO, regretting that Google, not his company, bought the video-sharing startup. Less than a week later, Miller was out of a job asÂ Time Warner replaced himÂ with veteran television executive Randy Falco. Could the two events, perchance, be related?Â  The batteries and the bees "It's kind of like impregnating someone. It only takes one, so the more of them there are, the more likely that you'll impregnate someone,"" --Â Rick Clancy, a Sony spokesman, indulging in some plain speaking as to how short circuits caused by microscopic metal particles in the vendor's lithium ion batteries led to a handful of laptops catching fire. The result? A series of major recalls of millions of Sony batteries.Â  Waxing poetic "Enterprise search software is so clearly bereft of soul,"Â Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager for Google's enterprise business, on how high-end search needs to take a leaf out of consumer search's book and focus more on the needs of end users.Â  "I think there was a good balance between different hair and beard lengths." --Â Kaj ArnÃ¶, vice president of community relations with MySQL, in a colorful description of the cross-section of attendees at the Free Software Foundation's First International Conference for GPLv3.Â  Slicing off the fat "We had become bloated. It's like middle-age spread. You don't know how it happens, but one day you look down and it's there." --Â Donald MacDonald, vice president and general manager of Intel's digital home group, as he patted his belly, graphically describing the chip giant's attempts to slim down its 100,000-strong work force. Shedding some light under the financial covers "You can talk about the negatives of 4 to 5 percent market share, but it's kind of like being in the ocean. We're on the bottom, so it doesn't matter what the weather is like up top." -- Steve Jobs, Apple Computer CEO, trying to allay shareholders' concerns about his company while suggesting he might have spent a little too much time watching his animation studio Pixar's "Finding Nemo" movie.Â  "What the chief accountant creates is a work of art." --Â Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, defining most financial reporting as less of a historical record and much more of a forecast. Perhaps that's why so many IT companies fell foul of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this year, particularly in relation to past practices around the granting of employee stock options.
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With Vista now into its second year, CEO Steve Ballmer says Microsoft is "turning the corner" in its enterprise efforts.