Some interesting quotes from the below 2014 Microsoft Buddy...

Some interesting quotes from the below 2014 Microsoft Buddy Presentation:

At 1.53 sec: The manufacturing heavyweights of our age (Author's note: He is referring to: Ford, Philips, Honeywell, Westinghouse, GE, Denon, GM) are all rapidly entering the connected devices world. And in fact some estimates have there being north of 100 BILLION CONNECTED DEVICES in less than 6 years by 2020.

At 3.04 sec: "If data is money, then Buddy is the bank."

At 4.08 sec: "...and finally we (BUDDY)can manage the data, and this is perhaps the most important from a Monetization perspective. For companies who wish to monetize their data, they need access to it, and they need it filtered and shaped in a way WE CAN DO FOR THEM..."