Joe Wilcox
Joe Wilcox
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We are reaching a point where the search engine becomes the basic interface for everything on a PC or computing system, including launching applications or files as well as finding information.
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They don't just want it to look good, they want it to sound good, too. Why have the boring PC 'beep' when even the basic sounds of the operating system can be an experience?
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There's a lot of hype right now about Web 2.0. This is a way for Microsoft to take control of the noise.
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The more people who know about it, the more chance there is of the secret getting out.
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There will be lots of new stuff, which I can't talk about right now.
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There were too many changes for them all to be directly related to the Windows Vista delay. I think these changes were in the works regardless of what happened.
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AOL has some great content that is broadly appealing to consumers. One thing that Microsoft lacks for MSN is a lot of good content.
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A number of developments are happening on the Internet that AOL couldn't ignore.
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Any company that offers a platform or pseudo-platform needs to be cautious when it begins to compete with partners.
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Are they going to knock Apple out of the sky? No chance. Not anytime soon, anyway,
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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.
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Any time anyone asks for your credit card number online when you already have an account, consider that to be a fraudulent spam mail.
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This is phase 2. Phase 1 was withholding certain things, such as downloads. But that wasn't going to make sure that people get legal, so they went on to the next phase. Now Microsoft's going to remind them at boot, when the system wakes from sleep, that there's something funky about their Windows.
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Some people might speculate that Opera couldn't compete by charging when AOL, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla and most other browser developers give away software for free. Not so. Just the opposite is true,