[According to Wilcox, everyone wins when industry is cooperating with law enforcement.] This is a way for Microsoft to give back to its customers, ... After all, who knows Windows better than Microsoft? |
[Linux] is brought in by corporations' Unix groups, so the first thing that's displaced is Unix. |
[The lesson both Microsoft and Linux supporters should take from the survey results?] Nobody buys an operating system, ... They buy applications. The operating system is there for the application. |
[Ultimately, analyst Wilcox questions how much weight even a thorough TCO analysis should get in the decision-making process.] I think cost containment is the wrong priority for making technology decisions, ... You should be thinking about the business. |
A number of developments are happening on the Internet that AOL couldn't ignore. |
A system that will run Windows Vista may not be capable of using all of its features. |
About 21 percent of large enterprises use Mac OS X on the desktop [and] the same percentage of these businesses also use Mac Office. The deal assures these customers that Microsoft will continue to make Office available for their existing Power PC-based Macs. |
Advertisers looking to extend their brands might think twice about being associated with products that could create disgruntled customers, |
Any company that offers a platform or pseudo-platform needs to be cautious when it begins to compete with partners. |
Any time anyone asks for your credit card number online when you already have an account, consider that to be a fraudulent spam mail. |
Anything is possible, but just because it's possible, doesn't mean that it's feasible. It's not that they can't do it, but can they make it successful. |
AOL has some great content that is broadly appealing to consumers. One thing that Microsoft lacks for MSN is a lot of good content. |
Apple has removed another barrier to switching. |
Are they going to knock Apple out of the sky? No chance. Not anytime soon, anyway, |
Assuming there may have been, or may be, talks between AOL and Microsoft, the timing of the (Yahoo-Microsoft) announcement may have been intentional to influence those presumed discussions. AOL has to decide does it want to work with the Microsoft camp, go its own way or form a strategic alliance with someone else. |