Laura DiDio

Laura DiDio
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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.
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It's a different, more dangerous world. Technology is more sophisticated, but so are the software pirates. Consumers or businesses that deploy counterfeit software put their PCs and networks at peril for encountering tampered code, viruses and even credit card theft. In the end, the consumer and the corporation may suffer just as much, if not more, harm than the software vendors.
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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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Emerging countries don't have the same requirement for advanced functionality and therefore go for the baseline stuff with a low entry point. That's a concern for Microsoft, and is why it is launching 'Windows light' and 'Office light' versions for countries such as Thailand.
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Even if you've got a homogenous Linux or Unix server environment, at some point you are going to have a business partner, a customer or a supplier that is using Windows and is going to touch your network. And if you haven't secured those environments, then that could be a backdoor for a worm or a virus to infect your Windows network.
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At this point, it is impacting about 10 percent of the market. One of the questions industry has to answer is exactly how will corporations integrate the data they obtain through RSS feeds into their analysis processes.
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Corporate customers want and are demanding that their vendors abandon divisive rhetoric and useless posturing and get on with the business of working together constructively,
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This will set up two environments, which will cost more to manage and integrate.
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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.