They have a huge cash flow that finances a whole city of people, and yet where you can grow from there is actually fairly limited. Microsoft's stock price isn't going anywhere, and in that environment, politics that were background noise rise to the foreground. |
They may have to bluff initially by pulling product off the market and making everybody uncomfortable. |
They want to stimulate buying behavior now, so they can't just lower the price. They have to indicate that if you don't buy now, you won't get that great price. |
They were very vague on specifics as to what they are going to do. Gateway extracted what value Wayne had to offer. |
They're not just the company that made the box, they're the people that sold it to you. |
They've got the consumer [business] pretty nailed, but the thing with consumer is that it's not very profitable. The retailers are kind of eating their lunch. In the end, they're selling machines, but not making a lot of money. |
They've never really assessed where they are. They feel they are the chosen people and this is causing them to not rectify their business problems. The fact remains they are marginalized in this industry, |
This is a 'you're-on-your-own' situation. |
This is a company with real profits and a real brand recognition. It's also a new thing for Dell since they haven't bought a company and maintained it as a separate subsidiary before that I know of. |
This is not an easy thing to sort through. |
This is one of many new technology gold rushes out there. |
This is part and parcel of an effort on Microsoft's part to make the launch of Vista really interesting. |
This may permanently alter the balance in New Orleans for the usage of cellular vs. traditional wire-line phone service, |
This new line is targeted at segments that have been underserved before - in particular the small business. |
This one is going to be successful, I think. I believe all the PC makers will adopt this because it's sort of a no-brainer. |