Joe Wilcox Quotes (82 Quotes)

Shortages like this are one of the effects of Apple keeping announcements quiet. Many companies will begin moving product through the channel before an announcement. Sometimes you'll even see Microsoft software on store shelves before it's announced.

By cutting these technologies free of the mother ship, they are able to develop based on their own merits and without any constraints. I do see the need to support Windows and Office as potentially constraining some development within Microsoft.

Some people might speculate that Opera couldn't compete by charging when AOL, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla and most other browser developers give away software for free. Not so. Just the opposite is true,

There is a lot of developer and consumer interest around these applications.

It used to be that the corporate network was totally separate from the home. Now we have a commingling of network roles, of devices, of technology, and of user behavior, and all of that increases the attack vectors open to hackers.

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.

A system that will run Windows Vista may not be capable of using all of its features.

Microsoft is at this juncture where it's the victim of its own success.

Microsoft's best marketing for Vista will come from simplicity -- making the value of Vista as easy to understand as possible, so people can look and say Vista is a lot better than the version they have now, Are there too many of them to communicate the value of Vista

Once an individual or company makes an investment in Windows, buys the software, and continues to spend money on upgrades, it will not suddenly shift to Mac.

There's long been concern about privacy on the Internet. What's different now is there is more criminal activity on the Internet.

Anything is possible, but just because it's possible, doesn't mean that it's feasible. It's not that they can't do it, but can they make it successful.

Windows Live is just the first step. Microsoft is building out all of its existing products, cross-connecting different features around communications and social networking.

It's not the optimal situation, to be launching the next-generation version of Windows right after the big holiday sales season.

According to Wilcox, everyone wins when industry is cooperating with law enforcement. This is a way for Microsoft to give back to its customers, ... After all, who knows Windows better than Microsoft

If you run Windows on a Mac, it's another copy for Microsoft. Better yet, it's on a competitor's hardware. It would be like Microsoft taking it to Apple's home field.

There's money to be made off browsers, in part because of search. The browser may be a giveaway, but it's a freebee people use to access content they are willing to pay for or advertisers are willing to subsidize.

Any time anyone asks for your credit card number online when you already have an account, consider that to be a fraudulent spam mail.

But we'll have to wait and see how that actually works.

It is an opportunity for Apple to go out and evangelize the new Intel processors to developers and nudge them to get more of their applications out of the door.

Linux vs. Windows TCO studies are great business for analysts and wicked sales propaganda for companies, but I don't think high-tech vendors or their customers should take much stock in them,

There are legal services for downloading music and movies,

Microsoft definitely is making progress. The UI is more refined, but by no means finished. Microsoft has finally reached the point where IE feels like a modern browser.

We've got new versions coming next year. And Microsoft has the tough sell of convincing existing business customers and consumers that what they have isn't good enough.

Microsoft hasn't done a good job of marketing and needs to improve and the timing is crucial,

A number of developments are happening on the Internet that AOL couldn't ignore.

While most companies understand the need to archive e-mails, they often overlook the need to archive instant messages. If there's a security breach with respect to messaging and the company doesn't properly archive the messages, it could lead to compliance problems.

Corel is targeting the small-business market, which typically has 20 employees or less. This is a market that Microsoft has had trouble reaching because it's fragmented and has diverse business needs. Product loyalty is not as great and cost drives a lot of purchase decisions.

It looks to me that Microsoft has added another layer of bureaucracy. At a time when startups are starting to show some real promise again, Microsoft now looks even bigger and potentially slower than it was before.

I think it's too bad in a way. I would have liked to see a new Windows Media version for the Mac, and have Microsoft take the media battle to Apple's home court.

You have a number of scenarios that open up that didn't before for the enterprise. Imagine an outfit that's doing CAD computer aided design work. Most of the good CAD programs run in Windows. For a shop that might want to use Mac OS for many other things, the ability to boot into Windows could be very convenient.

It's a classic example of what Microsoft will be doing as it looks at the Web 2.0 problem. Microsoft will offer some interesting and potentially cool services, but they will be tied back to the desktop.