This is incredibly stupid, ... But, more Mac users have Palms, so it made sense for them (Microsoft) to go the Palm way. |
This is Microsoft moving toward offering [all of its] software as a service, ... Microsoft will ease into it because they don't want to give up the product revenue before the services revenue can ramp up. |
This is the emergence of the new Gateway. It's critical for them that the market see them as a new and vibrant company, as opposed to the perception that followed them at the beginning of the year, that this is a company that's going out of business. |
This looks a lot like 15 years ago, when IBM was dominant and similar surveys showed a high tendency to switch from IBM to another vendor. The difficulty is that we're still waiting for the right kind of vendor to stand up and come forward. |
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. |
This will enable the neighborhoods where it is installed to experience next-generation Web applications and programming at acceptable speeds. |
Trading floors are already going to flat-panel displays, for example. And health care services like flat panels because CRT emissions can interfere with medical instruments. |
Typically Microsoft issues the Office copy for the Mac after they offer it for the PC. It always lags by about a year. |
Users need to have a contingency plan, regardless of the outcome of the merger. In the current environment, we're dealing with a risk-averse audience, and they don't want to put their jobs on the line for a company that may not be able to execute. |
Vista, because it was pretty much conceived during the toughest times for Microsoft with regards to malicious software, has the most protection in it compared to any of their platforms. |
Walker Digital doesn't look like much more than an idea house that comes up with ideas, then sues people who come up with similar ones. I think that kind of behavior is very similar to what happened on the high seas with pirates. It's being done under the auspices of a legitimate business practice, but in fact it's concealing behavior that is anything but fair business practice. |
We already know when consumers don't buy in the fourth quarter, they don't come back in the first quarter. This has created a market opportunity that is unprecedented for Apple if they can execute. |
We were all expecting a little bit more. |
We're right now at the forefront of another major change. |
We're seeing a partnership feeding frenzy. |