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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I'm sure it's not lost on Microsoft executives that the world's third largest computer company is from China. Microsoft has a problem: PC growth is highest in emerging markets like China, where software piracy rates are high. China deals could be construed as generating goodwill, which Microsoft would want to use to gain greater Chinese government cooperation fighting piracy.
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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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You can play semantics and say that the operating system is shipping in 2006, but if consumers can't buy it until 2007, PC manufacturers don't have it to sell to them. This blow falls on the partners.
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What these services do differently is protect the messaging environment.
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Unlike Windows Vista, I also don't see any major disturbance caused by 2007 delivery of the next Office version. Microsoft is smart to release both products together.
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We've got new versions coming next year. And Microsoft has the tough sell of convincing existing business customers and consumers that what they have isn't good enough.
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The reality is that most of Microsoft's partners are also its closest competitors, but that's nothing new,
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There is a lot of developer and consumer interest around these applications.
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Real was the only protagonist left in the EU case, so the settlement should help with Microsoft's appeal, since the problem involved appears to have been fixed,
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Look at the auto industry. Do people fault Jaguar for selling fewer cars than Dodge? ... Opera in some ways is a Cadillac browser. You have a lot of extra features built in. The volume might be with the Caravans and the SUVs, but that doesn't mean there isn't money to be made on the other vehicles. Of course, the analogy here is with Web browsers.
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Linux vs. Windows TCO studies are great business for analysts and wicked sales propaganda for companies, but I don't think high-tech vendors or their customers should take much stock in them.
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Linux use doesn't go beyond file servers or print servers because the applications aren't there.
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It is meant to be an idea factory.