Michael Silver
Michael Silver
Michael Buchman Silveris an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Assistant District Attorney Leo Cohen in the television series NYPD Blue...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 July 1967
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Microsoft is going to be feeling more pressure, especially as applications get to be more OS -agnostic.
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If they add too little, people don't find it compelling, and if they change too much, businesses can't absorb (the new software), even if they do get it out the door. This is the 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't' situation that Microsoft finds itself in.
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The more proficient you are with Microsoft Office, the more you'll be annoyed.
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Microsoft should produce a single patch for Office 2003 SP1. SP1 is still supported and installing it, and a patch would be much easier for users than having to test and install a whole service pack, which is what they need to do to comply today.
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Microsoft has had a tendency to group home and business together, because many of those customers will be using the same features anyway. So, whenever there's a new release, there tends to be uncertainty over whether it's for consumers or enterprises.
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Companies already think that switching to a Mac OS from Microsoft wouldn't be worth the hassle. A large company with thousands of PCs has a huge number of applications that require Windows, so they wouldn't even think of migrating. That puts them in a very non-Apple frame of mind.
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Microsoft has become more aware that it needs to do a better job in promoting itself to enterprises, especially with Vista. It's not completely there yet, but it's started to see the light.
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They want the enterprise to have excellent Windows NT support, but they don't necessarily want to be the ones to provide it, ... Microsoft does want that involvement and to have more account control over their larger enterprise customers.
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That's why Linux has not taken off more than it has today,
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If there's one word that I use to sum up what I'm hearing from customers, it's resentment.
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Eventually, they will need to do consumer releases more often. They don't need to do enterprise releases as often, but they need to be predictable.
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The issue is whether it's cheaper to support two operating systems and have lower operating costs, or spend the money on migration. Most companies don't have an automated way to do an OS upgrade, so a full-scale migration would be the higher cost.
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If I rely on the user to remove metadata, a lot of that metadata is inevitably going to get through. It really needs to be automated.
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If anything, it makes it better for Apple users because it gets more people into the Apple fold.