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    I have trouble finding a study without it quickly being disqualified by who funded it,

    It's very critical to Apple that they get this .NET blessing, otherwise they're going to get forced out of the corporate network.

    Every company I speak with is talking about it. The concern level is very high.

    I see him more as a king maker at Disney than a king. However, he could easily become the power behind the throne, and I doubt he will let anyone forget that.

    Considering how a phone gets treated, having a hard drive in them doesn't make much sense to me,


    We're seeing cell phone growth from ages 8 and 9 on.

    It's a huge market and largely untapped right now. Kids want phones, but nothing really deals with their parents' concerns. This will quickly spread to all of the wireless services.

    Once you have the link open, you should be able to get the (Internet Protocol) address on the other side. If the drives are password protected, it is far more difficult to get access.

    Big iron, no matter how you look at it -- PBXs, servers, switches -- it's a conservative buy,

    If your company has a lot of desktops, you might buy AMD to protect your infrastructure,

    The enabling technologies are the strength of the back end and the competence of the wireless network,

    Online TV is going to make inroads into traditional forms. That can be a threat to the traditional providers of content or it can be an opportunity as well.

    Few things could have done more damage to the 2006 PC market then the slip of Windows Vista. This will have an adverse impact on a broad cross section of components and platform PC suppliers who depend on the 4th quarter to make their numbers. The big issue is consumers typically do not wait to buy, and will chose to buy something else and now wait until later in 2007 to purchase their computers.

    The capability is there to make it look like an Aqua clone. This is going to be a very Apple-like launch.

    In fact, Windows CE has been blamed for the lackluster acceptance of keyboarded handhelds in general, which some analysts say aren't useful for much other than e-mail retrieval. When are they going to get it to work right with a server as opposed to a desktop ... And when are they going to get an adequate set of personal productivity applications.

    The business market wants low-maintenance devices. Appliances can get close to this profile,

    Vista's array of visual tools, which go by names such as Acrylic, Sparkle, and Quartz dramatically improves the Web-based visual toolset available and probably goes further to explain why Adobe felt the need to acquire than anything else, ... This promises richer Web sites and future multi-media hosted applications that can better exemplify products and services and create a more immersive experience.

    This is the emergence of the new Gateway. It's critical for them that the market see them as a new and vibrant company, as opposed to the perception that followed them at the beginning of the year, that this is a company that's going out of business.

    In the near term this is not going to have much impact on Microsoft's behavior. The biggest change is what other companies do with Microsoft,

    I wouldn't go so far as to say WAP is dead. But the idea that an IT manager or Webmaster should have to learn WML to create a WAP site is hogwash, ... The idea that WML replaces HTML is silly.

    Pretty much across the board people are saying that Microsoft is dysfunctional. They are not cooperating across business groups, ... The end result of this reorganization is to fix that to get it so people who should be cooperating are cooperating, so they can start focusing on competitors instead of competing against themselves.

    They bring different strengths to the table. Compaq has done a better job in regard to engineering an entire line. On the other hand, HP has been strong in consumer products.

    It's been languishing quite a bit and is reminiscent of the old IBM. As a company reaches a certain size, it loses its edge.

    This is an initiative to create a high level of integration and is almost a complete reorganization of the Microsoft architecture, ... But I haven't seen anything new they've done that has gotten me excited.

    Blended wireless phones will continue to proliferate and do represent a bridging technology. Eventually we will be making our calls consistently over the Internet, and the phone will simply become another wireless Internet appliance.

    Data centers like this are what contains the family jewels. They're looking for low-cost real estate and stable sites in terms of weather and geographic activity. It means they've done some work and determined it's one of the least-expensive, safest places they can build.

    IE has been frozen for a number of years largely at the request of large corporations that didn't want to upgrade and impact the stability of their systems. The result was that new browsers were able to spring up and begin taking market share.

    These kinds of affinity programs, like credit cards with your favorite sports team, were popular for a while.

    With Microsoft bleeding a certain number of people to companies like Google, putting Ozzie in that position sends a message to employees that they will be loved,

    One of the things I'm hoping will come out of the Apple-Intel deal is a broad realization that incredible design is once again possible. Over the years the hardware OEMs have consistently used Intel and Microsoft as reasons they can't build really cool products. Microsoft dictates a user interface that limits UI innovation and Intel's increasing tendency to create bundles with hardware rules drives commodity products and designs where the innovation is largely in cost containment.

    companies don't have a vendor they can trust. Sun could be that vendor.

    Surveys that deal with Generation X and younger indicate these audiences love this stuff. They are not concerned at all with the privacy aspects of this stuff. As long as nobody uses that information against them, they don't have any problem, as long as it makes the experience better.

    Microsoft recognizes that its better off in the long run if it can focus on competing and innovating, ... But it's clear they have limits to how far they're willing to go to make that happen.

    It would probably crash the PC consumer market, given that being able to copy songs is one of the reasons that people are buying new machines,

    It's becoming more and more of an entertainment event and less of a trade show. Its a good place for people to go and talk about technology, but at some point it just becomes a fair and not really the trade show that it once was.

    Intellectual property litigation has been increasing steadily for the last several years. As a result, indemnification against this litigation not only has become a requirement for any technology purchase, it strongly pushes companies toward the buy side of the build-versus-buy decision. Microsoft's indemnification stands as one of the most comprehensive in the market, setting a high bar for competing platforms.

    Walker Digital doesn't look like much more than an idea house that comes up with ideas, then sues people who come up with similar ones. I think that kind of behavior is very similar to what happened on the high seas with pirates. It's being done under the auspices of a legitimate business practice, but in fact it's concealing behavior that is anything but fair business practice.

    AMD's launch places Intel in the unfamiliar position of following another company's technology lead to market. AMD's launch caught Intel flat-footed, ... Intel doesn't have a good 64-bit transition strategy.

    This looks a lot like 15 years ago, when IBM was dominant and similar surveys showed a high tendency to switch from IBM to another vendor. The difficulty is that we're still waiting for the right kind of vendor to stand up and come forward.

    Typically Microsoft issues the Office copy for the Mac after they offer it for the PC. It always lags by about a year.

    They put in a number of their top assets to really turn the group around. Going forward, they have a team that can execute and meet their dates.

    He was an instrumental part of making the Internet happen. When your on the Web and doing shopping, say a little prayer for Scott because he's part of what got you there.

    They have completely crossed over into La-La Land.

    When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

    The company had become almost unmanageable, ... In the past two and a half years, it felt like you just couldn't get anything done. The turf wars became more pronounced.

    The product is clearly now really late.

    This company has a lot of leading-edge chip designers behind them, as well as the inventor of Linux. So they've got the skills set to develop something that is based around the current paradigm that takes advantage of the technologies that exist today, as opposed to technologies that have either become obsolete -- or certainly old -- over the last five years.

    Granted, it was fairly early. But we do remember that people were downloading things across remote servers across what became the Internet at that time,

    Monday is only the first step. From there, they'll have to fight every step of the way to prevent any lack of confidence from turning into a downward spiral while they fight this thing.

    Appliances will be based on browsers, and it's the service you care about,


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