Laura DiDio
Laura DiDio
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Microsoft has shown it will dip into its huge cash reserves to settle the private cases that it can. Regulators have asked for Microsoft to let down its guard on what it considers its most valuable asset -- intellectual property.
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Microsoft has been in the forefront of placing bounties on hackers and in filing lawsuits against software pirates.
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Microsoft has been doing everything it can to ensure that customers are comfortable with its product. People need a reason to move to a new product. They don't need a reason to stay with an old one.
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Microsoft can afford to make payments to end the private cases. But it has a long history of guarding its source code vigorously, and the change of philosophy required to throw it open -- and to competitors, at that -- is significant.
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Microsoft and the EC came out swinging and then retired to their respective corners.
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Microsoft and Apple have always had a love/hate relationship.
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Microsoft's compelling financing option is especially relevant to small businesses with smaller purchasing budgets and very limited IT personnel. Businesses today should take advantage of the significant benefits available with the extended financing option. Partners that are not currently engaged with Microsoft Financing should seriously investigate this program for their customers.
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You know all those extra lines of code that we sometimes refer to as bloatware. It's actually very important and efficient stuff. There is some very substantial functionality built into the operating system.
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I'm hoping we see the same type of rebound this year, but we had a couple of random acts that nobody could have forecasted.
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I see more and more small businesses running servers, even one-person offices. They allow you to get more bang for your technology buck.
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For the past few years, the word proprietary has meant 'bad' software, ... But I think people are going to start thinking twice before building their own systems with open-source software in the next year or two.
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The margin of error for them is minute.
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The key to Vista is security, security, security.
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If I had a mixed environment, I would wait and see the effort it takes to deploy Active Directory and then see if Active Directory or NDS is best for my environment, ... Without redirect, users will have to choose.