Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle
Rob Enderleis an American technology analyst...
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Pretty much across the board people are saying that Microsoft is dysfunctional. They are not cooperating across business groups, ... The end result of this reorganization is to fix that ? to get it so people who should be cooperating are cooperating, so they can start focusing on competitors instead of competing against themselves.
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You'll actually see the operating system that people have been asking for years and are finally going to get. It should be more stable and more reliable. ... The breaking-every-day part goes away with this product.
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With Microsoft bleeding a certain number of people to companies like Google, putting Ozzie in that position sends a message to employees that they will be loved,
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It's the product launch you look at to see if they got the merger right. This shows they're back up and running and open for business, which is important because in a merger, people forget the company has products and focus on the merger only. So far they haven't broken anything.
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It's a lucrative market, and a great audience. These are people who spend money and replace their machines on a regular basis.
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It's becoming more and more of an entertainment event and less of a trade show. Its a good place for people to go and talk about technology, but at some point it just becomes a fair and not really the trade show that it once was.
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Walker Digital doesn't look like much more than an idea house that comes up with ideas, then sues people who come up with similar ones. I think that kind of behavior is very similar to what happened on the high seas with pirates. It's being done under the auspices of a legitimate business practice, but in fact it's concealing behavior that is anything but fair business practice.
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When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.
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A major brand entering the space is always going to be problematic for anyone who is already there. People are likely to be there shopping and they could easily be pulled into a digital music experience.
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These devices are quite costly, and they are complex, so they tend to be prone to failure. So far, nobody has figured how to make them at a low enough cost so that the average person can afford one. They are showing up in mil-spec implementations and particularly in larger types of uses. It's in the small-system area that they seem to be having the most problems.
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The software industry as a whole is eager to put a dent in piracy, so Microsoft as a leading vendor can say it has stepped up to do its part in the fight.
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Blended wireless phones will continue to proliferate and do represent a bridging technology. Eventually we will be making our calls consistently over the Internet, and the phone will simply become another wireless Internet appliance.
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The suit is likely to hurt both firms' opportunities.
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The thing that makes me so nervous is that there are no hardware (manufacturers) here. I don't have anything to wrap my arms around and say, Ah, yes, this is something that's coming to market soon.