Joe Wilcox
Joe Wilcox
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The Office leadership is known for getting things done. While the Windows and Windows Server groups are renowned for product delays, the Office folks tend to ship pretty much on time. There appears to be tighter execution and control.
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Microsoft would certainly benefit if say a Comcast or some other broadband providers with popular portals chose MSN as the default search.
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I think cost containment is the wrong priority for making technology decisions. You should be thinking about the business.
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Real was the only protagonist left in the EU case, so the settlement should help with Microsoft's appeal, since the problem involved appears to have been fixed,
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I'd be shocked if we saw a scenario where a bunch of people went out, bought Macs, and only ran Windows on them.
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There's a different emotional attachment to Office than to Windows. The operating system is like the road, but Office is the car you drive. People have emotional attachments to their cars.
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Nobody's infrastructure is the same, so it's unrealistic that you could do a vanilla survey that fits everybody.
attack corporate increases network open separate totally user
It used to be that the corporate network was totally separate from the home. Now we have a commingling of network roles, of devices, of technology, and of user behavior, and all of that increases the attack vectors open to hackers.
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It is an opportunity for Apple to go out and evangelize the new Intel processors to developers and nudge them to get more of their applications out of the door.
wait
But we'll have to wait and see how that actually works.
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Old habits die hard. Microsoft would really need to communicate the benefits.
accomplish needed perspective structure sure
From my perspective, I'm not sure why a new organizational structure is needed to accomplish that.
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The Opera folks are betting their browser has reached a threshold of popularity where they can unshackle it from the fees. This clearly is a volume play that could pay off if enough people use the browser. Opera would be able to drive revenue through affiliate relationships, for example.
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There are a number of ways Opera can make money off the browser, but all that requires volume. Removing the price tag and the banner ads increases the likelihood that more people will use the browser. More eyeballs means more revenue off the browser without charging for or putting banner ads in people's faces.