Dwight Davis
Dwight Davis
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It does a very hard thing: it makes Microsoft a sympathetic character.
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The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.
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Microsoft has a long history of publicizing its strategies by leaking memos judiciously, or not so judiciously.
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Not just Microsoft but everybody has been trying to come up with new ways to increase their penetration into that smaller part of the market.
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Interestingly, it sort of raises some of the issues about Microsoft bundling features into the operating system, which of course has been core to the whole antitrust issue.
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They're taking a more intimate role, and not depending solely on partners to give that support. It is a response to backlash from customers who wanted Microsoft to have more of a role there, to stand as the ultimate backstop for support.
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Telcos and network service providers, ASPs and ISPs, have all been growing as important players in the distribution of software functionality. With Windows 2000, Microsoft clearly thinks it has a much better horse to ride into battle to get these folks as customers. They will emphasize the new ASP channel as one they are especially targeting in that regard. They need a platform that actually runs 24 hours a day, and on bigger hardware configurations.
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Most people, including those strongly in the Active Directory camp, seem to think that it's a first-generation directory service and it's not quite there, it's not quite as competitive across the board as far as NDS is from Novell,
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Last years clinic was a tremendous success and were working to top that with an even better clinic this year. Ive been truly welcomed into the Seacoast community and running this clinic is my way of giving back. I have a full slate of youth and adult volunteers lined up and were looking forward to a fun day of basketball with our participants.
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This will not be a factor for Penn State medical students.
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I think they're feeling pretty good about the state of the code at this point. They're probably building a bit of a buffer for themselves, given their inability to hit the dates in the past.
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Linux has been somewhat suspect in performance compared to NT 4.0, and if Windows 2000 raises the bar, it raises the bar above where Linux is competing. On the other hand, there's no stopping Linux being the key alternative to Windows 2000 for as far as we can see.
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It comes out at sort of this strange time in the company's product evolution, the last gasp of the DOS line and Windows 98.
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If Windows 2000 reduces the monthly and yearly cost of ownership, the up-front sticker price won't be the key decision for corporations. But most consumers will continue to use Windows 98, and vendors will continue shipping PCs with Windows 98.