Joe Wilcox
Joe Wilcox
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Assuming there may have been, or may be, talks between AOL and Microsoft, the timing of the (Yahoo-Microsoft) announcement may have been intentional to influence those presumed discussions. AOL has to decide does it want to work with the Microsoft camp, go its own way or form a strategic alliance with someone else.
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Many of them, particularly if it's a bigger drive, will come with backup software. That really simplifies things for the user.
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The more people who know about it, the more chance there is of the secret getting out.
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It looks to me that Microsoft has added another layer of bureaucracy. At a time when startups are starting to show some real promise again, Microsoft now looks even bigger and potentially slower than it was before.
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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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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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The response to Opera's free offer was probably a catalyst in this position. It may have confirmed a strategy that the Opera folks were already thinking about.
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Microsoft hasn't done a good job of marketing and needs to improve ? and the timing is crucial,
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Microsoft has a good story to tell. It doesn't always do a good job telling it.
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There were too many changes for them all to be directly related to the Windows Vista delay. I think these changes were in the works regardless of what happened.
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You could look at it from the perspective that the responses mean there's a problem that needs to be addressed, or it could also be indicative of how much more interest there is in the use of the browser, ... No feedback and then problems occurring later on is a bad situation. The best situation is the release candidate goes out and people respond and say, 'Wait a minute! What about this? What about that?
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Are they going to knock Apple out of the sky? No chance. Not anytime soon, anyway,
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It is meant to be an idea factory.
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If you run Windows on a Mac, it's another copy for Microsoft. Better yet, it's on a competitor's hardware. It would be like Microsoft taking it to Apple's home field.