Joe Wilcox
Joe Wilcox
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If Microsoft hasn't significantly improved that experience, and made it as easy as Apple has, that's going to be a big barrier.
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But it's hard to get excited sometimes when your company delivers increasing revenue quarter on quarter, yet you read hype about Apple and their products and they get all the buzz.
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Shortages like this are one of the effects of Apple keeping announcements quiet. Many companies will begin moving product through the channel before an announcement. Sometimes you'll even see Microsoft software on store shelves before it's announced.
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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.
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Are they going to knock Apple out of the sky? No chance. Not anytime soon, anyway,
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Microsoft had tremendous success with larger businesses, but that market has become very saturated.
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I'm sure it's not lost on Microsoft executives that the world's third largest computer company is from China. Microsoft has a problem: PC growth is highest in emerging markets like China, where software piracy rates are high. China deals could be construed as generating goodwill, which Microsoft would want to use to gain greater Chinese government cooperation fighting piracy.
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Once an individual or company makes an investment in Windows, buys the software, and continues to spend money on upgrades, it will not suddenly shift to Mac.
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The Office group is known for running a pretty tight ship, so if he can bring more discipline, that could be very beneficial to future versions of Windows.
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Look at the auto industry. Do people fault Jaguar for selling fewer cars than Dodge? ... Opera in some ways is a Cadillac browser. You have a lot of extra features built in. The volume might be with the Caravans and the SUVs, but that doesn't mean there isn't money to be made on the other vehicles. Of course, the analogy here is with Web browsers.
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Any company that offers a platform or pseudo-platform needs to be cautious when it begins to compete with partners.
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It's not the optimal situation, to be launching the next-generation version of Windows right after the big holiday sales season.
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A number of developments are happening on the Internet that AOL couldn't ignore.
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AOL has some great content that is broadly appealing to consumers. One thing that Microsoft lacks for MSN is a lot of good content.