Laura DiDio
Laura DiDio
ought ready six
After six years of development it ought to be ready by now.
great microsoft potential thinks
Some things that Microsoft thinks will be great do have the potential of being annoying,
last marketing product strategy year
Novell has had a new product or marketing strategy every year for the last 13 or 14 years.
work
Novell doesn't want to do more work than they have to,
driven extreme fighting giants industry merely value
AOL's value is driven to the extreme merely because you had two industry giants fighting for it.
paying tangible
You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.
add complexity help layer supposed together tools users
You put all these tools together and what is supposed to help users is going to add a big layer of complexity and expense.
china company enormous market obviously technology thinking
China is the hotspot right now, obviously for its enormous market opportunity. If you're a technology company and you're not thinking about China, then you're already behind.
although existence linux mainstream order replace steep
Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.
declare great microsoft ongoing security strides
Security is an ongoing battle. Microsoft can never declare victory. But clearly, Microsoft has made great strides hardening the OS.
less results
So far, the results have been less than stellar.
cold given goes heart people time
Now we'll all have to go cold turkey, given that the UI goes to the heart of all the applications we use, ... And it's going to take people some time to get used to all the changes.
developer key platform reputation rich stingy
They have a reputation for being very stingy with their APIs and code, but the key to any platform like MSN is applications and a rich developer network.
afford best companies few tools
They are getting better on tools and things, and they can afford the best and the brightest. They're one of the few companies that has not had layoffs.