Joe Wilcox
Joe Wilcox
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Microsoft will more aggressively compete with longstanding partners because the company is at a crisis point. It has to find new reasons that'll convince customers to upgrade.
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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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Some people might speculate that Opera couldn't compete by charging when AOL, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla and most other browser developers give away software for free. Not so. Just the opposite is true,
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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 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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I think cost containment is the wrong priority for making technology decisions. You should be thinking about the business.
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I would not say this is a sign of great openness. It's more like establishing diplomatic relations between two countries, rather than opening borders.
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Microsoft is at this juncture where it's the victim of its own success.
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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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Microsoft had tremendous success with larger businesses, but that market has become very saturated.
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Microsoft certainly looks after its employees, there's no question about that. They're hiring, they're adding staff.
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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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Microsoft's best marketing for Vista will come from simplicity -- making the value of Vista as easy to understand as possible, so people can look and say Vista is a lot better than the version they have now, Are there too many of them to communicate the value of Vista?