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    It may be the technological equivalent to the shot heard 'round the world. If Massachusetts follows through with this plan, it will be a radical departure from how Microsoft and other businesses work with state governments.

    The Office group is known for running a pretty tight ship, so if he can bring more discipline, that could be very beneficial to future versions of Windows.

    The bottom line is, it's about business.

    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.

    Forty-eight percent of companies have Windows end-to-end. That's a big number and if you're running Windows already, you're probably going to get some cost savings from standardization, ... You can't ignore switching costs such as moving data, training, additional support, management and on and on it all adds up and it makes TCO analysis that much more difficult.


    Like Office 2003, many businesses will pay more for Office 2007 than its predecessor although the cost increases might not be obvious with retail pricing. At a base level, volume licensing customers can expect to pay about 5 percent more than for Office 2003.

    Companies talk all the time, even about mergers that never happen, and word about most of those discussions never gets out. Just because this one leaked out doesn't indicate the earnestness of the discussion.

    Microsoft didn't say how much source code would be licensed. Contrary to some news reports, I expect the amount of source code to be fairly limited.

    I'd be shocked if we saw a scenario where a bunch of people went out, bought Macs, and only ran Windows on them.

    But it's hard to get excited sometimes when your company delivers increasing revenue quarter on quarter, yet you read hype about Apple and their products and they get all the buzz.

    We are reaching a point where the search engine becomes the basic interface for everything on a PC or computing system, including launching applications or files as well as finding information.

    Microsoft would certainly benefit if say a Comcast or some other broadband providers with popular portals chose MSN as the default search.

    With some applications you notice the emulation more than others. The applications may not be as responsive when you first open them. For the person that bought the Intel-based Mac and is looking for that performance increase, the bigger bang will come from the native code.

    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.

    Both products reached the 'good enough' threshold a version or so ago.

    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.

    You can play semantics and say that the operating system is shipping in 2006, but if consumers can't buy it until 2007, PC manufacturers don't have it to sell to them. This blow falls on the partners.

    The Office leadership is known for getting things done. While the Windows and Windows Server groups are renowned for product delays, the Office folks tend to ship pretty much on time. There appears to be tighter execution and control.

    Microsoft is vulnerable because of bad behavior.

    It's a bargain. There are many other services that charge fees, particularly for domain registration.

    There were too many changes for them all to be directly related to the Windows Vista delay. I think these changes were in the works regardless of what happened.

    The response to Opera's free offer was probably a catalyst in this position. It may have confirmed a strategy that the Opera folks were already thinking about.

    I would recommend that any business buy Power Mac G5s now. Don't worry about later on, ... Because you know that, whatever happens, the current software is going to run on the PowerPC processor. There is uncertainty down the road with respect to Intel and how smoothly that transition would go.

    I don't see much common ground at all. Where they differ is fundamental.

    The Opera folks are betting their browser has reached a threshold of popularity where they can unshackle it from the fees. This clearly is a volume play that could pay off if enough people use the browser. Opera would be able to drive revenue through affiliate relationships, for example.

    Any company that offers a platform or pseudo-platform needs to be cautious when it begins to compete with partners.

    If you can identify who is buying and who is the more valuable customer, you can treat them according to future purchasing potential. That's the benefit.

    It's not something I expected from AOL, but it's the right direction at the right time.

    Look at the auto industry. Do people fault Jaguar for selling fewer cars than Dodge ... Opera in some ways is a Cadillac browser. You have a lot of extra features built in. The volume might be with the Caravans and the SUVs, but that doesn't mean there isn't money to be made on the other vehicles. Of course, the analogy here is with Web browsers.

    There's a lot of hype right now about Web 2.0. This is a way for Microsoft to take control of the noise.

    It's the psychological barrier. There are people who might be interested in a Mac who wouldn't have bought one because they're afraid they might need Windows.

    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.

    You could look at it from the perspective that the responses mean there's a problem that needs to be addressed, or it could also be indicative of how much more interest there is in the use of the browser, ... No feedback and then problems occurring later on is a bad situation. The best situation is the release candidate goes out and people respond and say, 'Wait a minute What about this What about that

    What Wallop is trying to create is a service that introduces 'real world' visual cues about the relationships to the online community.

    This is phase 2. Phase 1 was withholding certain things, such as downloads. But that wasn't going to make sure that people get legal, so they went on to the next phase. Now Microsoft's going to remind them at boot, when the system wakes from sleep, that there's something funky about their Windows.

    In emerging markets, consumers are more likely to own a cell phone than a computer, so they get to the Internet through their phone. Data use is not as advanced in the United States.

    Old habits die hard. Microsoft would really need to communicate the benefits.

    The approach has a lot of merit. Real is taking Rhapsody beyond the PC software and opening it with respect to other platforms, plus it brings the first real subscription music service to Mac and Linux-based products.

    There are a number of ways Opera can make money off the browser, but all that requires volume. Removing the price tag and the banner ads increases the likelihood that more people will use the browser. More eyeballs means more revenue off the browser without charging for or putting banner ads in people's faces.

    AOL has some great content that is broadly appealing to consumers. One thing that Microsoft lacks for MSN is a lot of good content.

    When you introduce something new, it disrupts, and this increases things like help desk costs and employee downtime. So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface and

    If disposal is an extra cost, then it's a problem that someone has to solve. If they can dispose of it easier because there are no potential toxins, then that's a benefit they can appreciate.

    About 21 percent of large enterprises use Mac OS X on the desktop and the same percentage of these businesses also use Mac Office. The deal assures these customers that Microsoft will continue to make Office available for their existing Power PC-based Macs.

    My concern is that Microsoft has introduced too much complexity, making more difficult the arduous purchase decision process. Microsoft is right to get information out earlier, because evaluating an Office purchase will be much harder for businesses this release cycle compared to Office 2003 or XP.

    From a latest and greatest perspective, some customers might be feeling bah humbug about their Christmas purchases.

    So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface.

    When you own a shopping mall and someone sets up a small business alongside of it, you still own the shopping mall.

    The three products launched today are the first wave of a tide of tightly integrated products. While some Microsoft executives have said that Microsoft bet the company on Windows Vista, the real bet is on integrated innovation.

    Microsoft will more aggressively compete with longstanding partners because the company is at a crisis point. It has to find new reasons that'll convince customers to upgrade.

    In the U.S., only about 60 percent of consumers have Microsoft Office on their computers. That's a lot of opportunity for sales there. They have a pricing advantage. It offers comparable, or better functionality for less. For the consumer and small businesses, value and price will be major factors influencing buying decisions.


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