Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Totally. I think Xbox Live is debatable. We’ll come back to this with Azure. Xbox Live was one of the original pioneering internet services, subscription services across any category of software and technology. The DNA and experience that Microsoft built from that served it extremely well. I think there are two gigantic benefits. Look, the gaming market is massive and important. If you could try to own one market in the world today, in the world of entertainment, it’s gaming. I’m just saying Microsoft didn’t up until that, at least this point in history. But it’s the right market to go after. They were not successful in capturing value from it at this moment in history. But you’re right. The two big things that they were able to do is build out a core competency of running a big online service, which totally led to Azure, which we’ll talk about later. Two, it really did make Microsoft relevant with a whole new set of consumers when Microsoft was completely irrelevant in their lives. Should we talk about Vista?…

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