This kind of penetration is what Microsoft sees as far more important than people buying it as upgrades in the store.

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No longer will BT customers be reliant on TV schedules.

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We'll continue to buy additional businesses where they make sense.

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It was a reasonable performance and it would have been good if it were not for mobile phones. We think we might be seeing the first signs of recovery in the PC market. December was a reasonable month.

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You get all the convenience and features of a mobile phone but with a fixed line cost and the quality you are used to with a fixed line.

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We continue to experience adverse general market trading conditions, ... We see no reason to expect circumstances to improve materially before the next generation of gaming platforms have been properly established.

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We have spent tens of millions of pounds on it and we will spend more tens of millions of pounds.

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If somebody wants to make a bid and it is in the shareholders' interests, fine ... What I know is if anyone wants to make a bid they'll have to pay that much more.

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If Microsoft were to provide excellent installation, setup, and support for Linux, Microsoft would probably be very successful in the Linux market. But Microsoft probably will not do anything to support Linux.

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The question is do we make (the service) available to all broadband customers or only BT broadband customers? I suspect we'll first provide it to BT customers.

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We know that many of our customers enjoy the convenience of their mobile phones when they're out and about -- but switch to using a landline phone when they arrive back home to save money or because they have little or no mobile coverage.

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