[AMD's launch places Intel in the unfamiliar position of following another company's technology lead to market. AMD's launch caught Intel] flat-footed, ... Intel doesn't have a good 64-bit transition strategy. |
[In fact, Windows CE has been blamed for the lackluster acceptance of keyboarded handhelds in general, which some analysts say aren't useful for much other than e-mail retrieval.] When are they going to get it to work right with a server as opposed to a desktop? ... And when are they going to get an adequate set of personal productivity applications? |
[Investing during a downturn isn't a new strategy, but it's a bold maneuver nonetheless, given that TI isn't exactly flying high right now. Its revenues for the first half of 2002 were down to $3.89 billion, a 13 percent drop year over year.] Cutting R&D budgets can be tempting for managers during tough times, ... It's seen as a soft cost, like marketing. |
[Investors have to ask themselves how much higher tech stocks might go when the war starts.] From a financial standpoint, we're already at war, ... Much of the impact is already felt. |
[IT managers] should set standards of machines that they will support and then lock down on those standards. These things proliferate like a virus. |
[Microsoft] grew to a point where they thought they were big enough they could weather any storm, ... I think they've been reminded recently that nobody's really big enough. |
[One issue is the Unix roots in Mac OS X, which is based on the BSD operating system.] This Unix component is working against them, ... It's basically Unix with an Apple front end, but from the administrators' point of view, all they see is Unix. |
[Still, no one's ever done anything like this before, so we don't know yet if it's an improvement on existing indexes. With a statistical pool of nearly 15,000,] it's hard to qualify the respondents, ... It's hard to tell if the people answering the survey are actually who they say they are, with the buying power they claim to have. |
[Vista's array of visual tools, which go by names such as Acrylic, Sparkle, and Quartz] dramatically improves the Web-based visual toolset available and probably goes further to explain why Adobe felt the need to acquire than anything else, ... This promises richer Web sites and future multi-media hosted applications that can better exemplify products and services and create a more immersive experience. |
A 600-MHz machine will come with a bigger hard drive, a better video subsystem. It's really become the Cadillac of the line, while the Celeron is a respectable, high-end Chevy. |
A few years back you couldn't point to a single Dell laptop and suggest that it was something anybody wanted to carry. We've seen these products become much more attractive over time. |
A major brand entering the space is always going to be problematic for anyone who is already there. People are likely to be there shopping and they could easily be pulled into a digital music experience. |
After one year, the company doesn't look the way it did under Carly. |
AOL was a company waiting to die, Suddenly, they had a strategy that wasn't just about putting them out of business. They washed the car and it got a lot more attractive. |
Apple was losing a lot of bids, |