Both products reached the 'good enough' threshold a version or so ago. |
But it's hard to get excited sometimes when your company delivers increasing revenue quarter on quarter, yet you read hype about Apple and their products and they get all the buzz. |
But we'll have to wait and see how that actually works. |
By cutting these technologies free of the mother ship, they are able to develop based on their own merits and without any constraints. I do see the need to support Windows and Office as potentially constraining some development [within Microsoft]. |
Companies talk all the time, even about mergers that never happen, and word about most of those discussions never gets out. Just because this one leaked out doesn't indicate the earnestness of the discussion. |
Conceptually, it sounds good. Execution will tell all. |
Conceptually, the changes all sound pretty good. The test will be the execution. We'll see how everything works. |
Corel is targeting the small-business market, which typically has 20 employees or less. This is a market that Microsoft has had trouble reaching because it's fragmented and has diverse business needs. Product loyalty is not as great and cost drives a lot of purchase decisions. |
Do you do things to enable your partners, or do you do things to compete with them? Microsoft's approach is to do the latter. |
Emulation is slower, sometimes much slower, than applications that run natively. |
Forty-eight percent [of companies] have Windows end-to-end. That's a big number [and] if you're running Windows already, you're probably going to get some cost savings from standardization, ... You can't ignore switching costs [such as] moving data, training, additional support, management and on and on it all adds up and it makes TCO analysis that much more difficult. |
From a latest and greatest perspective, some customers might be feeling bah humbug about their Christmas purchases. |
From my perspective, I'm not sure why a new organizational structure is needed to accomplish that. |
How can Microsoft reasonably promise to do more in Europe when it presumably isn't doing enough in the US? |
I don't see much common ground at all. Where they differ is fundamental. |