Joe Wilcox
Joe Wilcox
arduous businesses compared concern cycle decision difficult harder information introduced microsoft office purchase release
My concern is that Microsoft has introduced too much complexity, making more difficult the arduous purchase decision process. Microsoft is right to get information out earlier, because evaluating an Office purchase will be much harder for businesses this release cycle compared to Office 2003 or XP.
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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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There's no question that Microsoft needed to do something.
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There's money to be made off browsers, in part because of search. The browser may be a giveaway, but it's a freebee people use to access content they are willing to pay for or advertisers are willing to subsidize.
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There's long been concern about privacy on the Internet. What's different now is there is more criminal activity on the Internet.
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It would be huge for Microsoft if it could dispatch its problems with Europe,
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The three products launched today are the first wave of a tide of tightly integrated products. While some Microsoft executives have said that Microsoft bet the company on Windows Vista, the real bet is on integrated innovation.
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Conceptually, the changes all sound pretty good. The test will be the execution. We'll see how everything works.
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Conceptually, it sounds good. Execution will tell all.
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Corel is targeting the small-business market, which typically has 20 employees or less. This is a market that Microsoft has had trouble reaching because it's fragmented and has diverse business needs. Product loyalty is not as great and cost drives a lot of purchase decisions.
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Do you do things to enable your partners, or do you do things to compete with them? Microsoft's approach is to do the latter.
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Emulation is slower, sometimes much slower, than applications that run natively.
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The rules are different for Microsoft than other companies.
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Advertisers looking to extend their brands might think twice about being associated with products that could create disgruntled customers,