Al Gillen
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Al Gillen
current customers easier less microsoft migration move onto required touch
For Microsoft to get customers to move onto the most current product, they have to make migration easier and have a lot less touch required on the part of IT managers.
microsoft practical taking viable
Microsoft is now taking a viable approach, ... It's a more practical way to go about it.
million pcs per year
They do 150 million PCs per year it's like a rounding error.
bend convenient marketing meet open people
Open is one of those convenient marketing terms. People bend it to meet their needs.
attractive companies reason stay
A lot of companies need a reason to stay with NetWare. For the NetWare installed base, NetWare 5.1 is going to be a very attractive product.
fairly seemed
Vista seemed to be on schedule, so this was a fairly significant surprise.
adoption among base causing concern customers gain huge manipulate microsoft pain plans somehow using windows
There is a huge installed base of customers (over 400 million) using Windows XP, and Microsoft would gain nothing by causing pain or concern among those customers to somehow manipulate their adoption plans for Windows Vista.