Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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Microsoft has realized that PCs are not the center of the world. E-business or online services to enterprises could become the next big area of growth for the company.
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Microsoft has a long-term e-business goal that involves MSN. They've got to keep MSN alive and relevant enough within the marketplace until they have their e-business web channel ready.
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Microsoft is the dominant player if it chooses to be which would mean there would be significant market share losses for Symantec.
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The fact that the EU is showing its teeth is very significant. Microsoft kind of got away with things in the U.S.
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With Microsoft taking the bottom out of the market's pricing structure, we are going to see that business slow down even more precipitously.
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These settlements and collaborations are clearing the table. It is a preamble to a larger strategic move, ... Microsoft is trying to keep MSN relevant.
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This is a glaring, embarrassing problem that Microsoft has to fix.
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If unearned revenue keeps sliding, it suggests the growth story for Microsoft has gotten long in the tooth and that would raise more worries about the valuation.
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It has always been the focal point of the development.
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We're blessed with a little bit of speed. The skill people, if they find a crack, they can take it to the house.
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I think it makes some sense; it's just consolidation like anything else. You take two weaker players and combine them for strength.
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My only expectation of him is that he will prove that everyone who had great confidence in him was right.
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To buy (Siebel) and combine them along with other smaller acquisitions into Oracle in a very short time is an unprecedented task in terms of difficulty. It's not easy by any stretch, and that is a lot of risk to try to do that in a short time with a bunch of different technologies.
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This strikes me as a trial balloon, ... Management may be getting tired of the harping on the dividend so if they give investors a quarter of the cash to shut people up, then the company can get back to business.