Michael Silver
Michael Silver
Michael Buchman Silveris an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Assistant District Attorney Leo Cohen in the television series NYPD Blue...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 July 1967
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For business users, bringing on new equipment, much like changing operating systems, has to be because there's a demonstrated need.
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It looks like they did, to some extent, what the Department of Justice couldn't. I could see where this could make it harder for Windows and Office groups to work together, and they do need to.
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Do I have tools to get something this large onto my PCs without administrator intervention?
consumer enterprise releases
Eventually, they will need to do consumer releases more often. They don't need to do enterprise releases as often, but they need to be predictable.
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Installing the patches on new implementations without testing may be a quick alternative that minimizes legal risk, but risks breaking applications.
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But it's a heavy-handed way to get companies into Software Assurance.
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If there's one word that I use to sum up what I'm hearing from customers, it's resentment.
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If they add too little, people don't find it compelling, and if they change too much, businesses can't absorb (the new software), even if they do get it out the door. This is the 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't' situation that Microsoft finds itself in.
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For most enterprises, it will take them 18 months for testing and planning before they can start deploying Windows Vista anyway, so this delay won't affect their plans all that much.
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If anything, it makes it better for Apple users because it gets more people into the Apple fold.
businesses
Most businesses will need to take some action.
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Microsoft is going to be feeling more pressure, especially as applications get to be more OS -agnostic.
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Microsoft has had a tendency to group home and business together, because many of those customers will be using the same features anyway. So, whenever there's a new release, there tends to be uncertainty over whether it's for consumers or enterprises.
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Microsoft has become more aware that it needs to do a better job in promoting itself to enterprises, especially with Vista. It's not completely there yet, but it's started to see the light.