Microsoft thinks it's time to tell people that they've been a naughty boy. My expectation is that they'll get more aggressive in anti-piracy than not.
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Assuming there may have been, or may be, talks between AOL and Microsoft, the timing of the (Yahoo-Microsoft) announcement may have been intentional to influence those presumed discussions. AOL has to decide does it want to work with the Microsoft camp, go its own way or form a strategic alliance with someone else.Joe Wilcox
I'm sure it's not lost on Microsoft executives that the world's third largest computer company is from China. Microsoft has a problem PC growth is highest in emerging markets like China, where software piracy rates are high. China deals could be construed as generating goodwill, which Microsoft would want to use to gain greater Chinese government cooperation fighting piracy.
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The question to ask is Who will care if Microsoft misses the date again. I've been saying since the (March) delay that from a sales perspective, January might as be July, that January release builds in room to move the date again, if needed.
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Microsoft is at this juncture where it's the victim of its own success.
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What Wallop is trying to create is a service that introduces 'real world' visual cues about the relationships to the online community.
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Ultimately, analyst Wilcox questions how much weight even a thorough TCO analysis should get in the decision-making process. I think cost containment is the wrong priority for making technology decisions, ... You should be thinking about the business.
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