"Spin off Xbox (and related Kinect products) as a separate company. It's a strong enough 'living room' brand, and I doubt if customers really care that it's a Microsoft product."
Kinect came out of Microsoft Research. If you spin off the Xbox division as their own company, I'm not sure how that relationship would still exist or how that would work.
"Make technology from devdiv as open and easily accessible as possible. E.g. give the drugs away for free as in beer, and also free as in freedom where it makes sense. Ultimately, this should drive adoption of products 1 and 2 listed above, and that's where Microsoft should be making money."
The developer tools makes a decent amount of money for Microsoft, far much more than their entertainment division does. Not sure why they would give that up. You can see Q1 for 2013 here: http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn... Notice that Business Division brought in the most and then Server and Tools came in right behind that.
Kinect came out of Microsoft Research. If you spin off the Xbox division as their own company, I'm not sure how that relationship would still exist or how that would work.
"Make technology from devdiv as open and easily accessible as possible. E.g. give the drugs away for free as in beer, and also free as in freedom where it makes sense. Ultimately, this should drive adoption of products 1 and 2 listed above, and that's where Microsoft should be making money."
The developer tools makes a decent amount of money for Microsoft, far much more than their entertainment division does. Not sure why they would give that up. You can see Q1 for 2013 here: http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn... Notice that Business Division brought in the most and then Server and Tools came in right behind that.