Peter Kelly
Peter Kelly
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Fundamentally, it's a shift from Office as a bag of tools to a platform that companies use to run their business.
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If there is any programming language architect on the planet who has the experience and insight to pull this off, he'd be on short list.
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The market is changing so that it's not so much about an individual slice of the product stack at this point. It's more about customers saying, 'We want you to be our end-to-end supplier, not just somebody who is solving one part of the problem for us'.
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I expect astounding things coming in the future, but we need a reset on the market projections and hype of today.
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It's unfortunate for Microsoft and its hardware partners that they'll miss the 2006 consumer PC holiday shopping season, but it's ultimately not a game-changer.
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In general, given a choice between a device designed to be dedicated for a specific task (or a few tasks) and a general-purpose device that addresses the same needs -- without seeming like a clunky Swiss Army Knife device brick -- I'll take the general-purpose device every time.
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I felt having one person, one vote would be all-inclusive, but if this is what they decided, it is the executive that chooses the process,
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I don't know of a more central location.
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I think the biggest assumption about Vista that will likely be untrue is that it will be dull/dowdy and/or fail to effectively compete, at least for objective customers, with Mac OS. Revitalized competition in the OS space is going to be great for all customers, in any case.
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The single most effective thing proprietors can do is to install a fire detection system with an alarm that rings at the station.
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During the peak of the internet bubble, the leading database management system vendors were getting out of touch in terms of their pricing,
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LINQ is an example of breakthrough simplicity that required major effort by Microsoft, ... What developers are doing now and what they propose to do with LINQ is a radical change.
ordinary people themselves
Sometimes ordinary people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances,
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Many of the enterprise customers we talk with wouldn't want major updates more frequently than a two- to three-year cycle, even if Microsoft could deliver updates on a faster cycle.