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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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

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The bottom line is, it's about business.

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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.

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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.

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

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Microsoft is vulnerable because of bad behavior.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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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.

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