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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Given the fact that the desktop market space is predominately Windows, the results show an unusually high degree of dissatisfaction with the existing product and . . . a willingness to move to something else -- almost anything else -- to relieve their pain.
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IE has been frozen for a number of years largely at the request of large corporations that didn't want to upgrade and impact the stability of their systems. The result was that new browsers were able to spring up and begin taking market share.
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When a market is this tightly fought, any price drop in a component results in an immediate drop in hardware price.
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He's really getting the financials and operations in good order and making strong management and organizational decisions, as opposed to going after every opportunity on the planet. Those decisions are very hard to make, because a lot of folks only want to acquire companies, and the end result is a complex mess that can't be managed.
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I can't think of any company in the consumer space that will get hurt as a result of the delay.
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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.
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Every company I speak with is talking about it. The concern level is very high.
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Cutting R&D budgets can be tempting for managers during tough times. It's seen as a soft cost, like marketing.
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Vista, because it was pretty much conceived during the toughest times for Microsoft with regards to malicious software, has the most protection in it compared to any of their platforms.