Michael Silver Quotes (19 Quotes)

If there's one word that I use to sum up what I'm hearing from customers, it's resentment.

There would be cost and complexity, and the key for many business users, the reason they wouldn't migrate, is because it would just be too much effort for very little demonstrated need,

That's why Linux has not taken off more than it has today,

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.

It looks like they did, to some extent, what the Department of Justice couldn't. I could see where this could make it harder for Windows and Office groups to work together, and they do need to.

Do I have tools to get something this large onto my PCs without administrator intervention

It's still a manual process. It's still something you have to remember to do. Any time you're relying on the user to remember something, there's a good chance that they'll forget.

There's a feeling by some that because home and business share a lot of the same components of Vista, Microsoft just makes the market target bigger by talking about those common features. But that makes businesses feel uncertain, and there's some merit to that feeling.

There should be a plan and policy in place to address metadata management before you deploy Windows Vista.

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.

For business users, bringing on new equipment, much like changing operating systems, has to be because there's a demonstrated need.

Immediate is pretty quick. It would be nice if there was some sort of time line that says you have to do it within six months or a year.

Microsoft could slip the business editions into 2007 without a big impact on what most companies would do, and thats certainly possible. The Home editions were really the more important ones to get out this year. Once they miss Christmas, slipping again has fewer ramifications.

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.

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.

Even for people with bad lung disease, bronchitis, end-stage emphysema and asthma, the mere effect of focusing on a basic body function like breathing can be restorative.

Most businesses will need to take some action.

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 i

Microsoft is going to be feeling more pressure, especially as applications get to be more OS -agnostic.