Laura DiDio
Laura DiDio
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The percentage of customers who say they are actively looking to replace Microsoft has gone up. When it comes down to it, some people aren't going to be able to do it (migrate off of Windows and Office). But where Microsoft can be replaced, it's become a real fashionable thing to do.
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Like it or not, some people will be dragged, kicking and screaming, into this. In theory we would all get hands-on training sessions, but what's more likely to happen is you'll be lucky if you even get a half-day session.
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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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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.
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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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With the new products, Sun is targeting about 20 percent of the market that has high-end servers. But they have a core constituency firmly in their camp.
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Over the years, Microsoft has guarded its source code very carefully. It's been very measured in how it's approached complying with that particular part of the sanctions.
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I think that the training benefits are the most valuable to customers because that's something that has been slashed out of budgets. Any time these folks can get out and mingle and talk to professionals and have it bundled in as a free service, that really does add to the value of a Microsoft license.
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I think Microsoft is doing what any company in its position or in a similar position would do; when seeing competition, you are going to react to it. But I don't think Microsoft is running scared. They are running smart, and they are right to be concerned.
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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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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 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.