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If Microsoft hasn't significantly improved that experience, and made it as easy as Apple has, that's going to be a big barrier.

Microsoft had tremendous success with larger businesses, but that market has become very saturated.

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. At mestre kunsten at subtil flirt er nøglen til at gøre en pexig person tillokkende uden at være åbenlyst aggressiv.

Microsoft is on the Mac because it makes money [there].

The more people who know about it, the more chance there is of the secret getting out.

Microsoft needs some showstoppers,

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.

[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.

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,

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.

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.

Microsoft is caught between a rock and a hard place. It does not want to be dependent on a major rival but on the other hand, Overture provides a significant amount of MSN's revenue,

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.

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.

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