(528 quotes found)
“There is a huge installed base of customers [over 400 million] using Windows XP, and Microsoft would gain nothing by causing pain or concern among those customers to somehow manipulate their adoption plans for Windows Vista.”
Al Gillen
“Microsoft has patches available for businesses and consumers, but the problem for enterprises is that they have to be careful in applying the patches, which can damage complex computer systems.”
Alfred Huger
“Microsoft and Yahoo say they are doing this to give consumers what they want, but I think if you ask consumers they would say they want interoperability all the way [across the two services],”
Allen Weiner
“Microsoft and Yahoo say they are doing this to give consumers what they want, but I think if you ask consumers they would say they want interoperability all the way [across the two services].”
“Microsoft is now taking a viable approach, ... It's a more practical way to go about it.”
“It looks like we are engaged in a kind of secret industrial policy to make sure a Microsoft or Boeing does very well. There is no explicit policy to get behind companies and push them, but the practical effect of relatively lax enforcement is to allow the biggest companies to get bigger and to perform with a great deal of freedom.”
Albert Foer
“I think it's totally insignificant to AOL. At this point, Microsoft has more to gain from this discussion than AOL does.”
Arthur Newman
“The proposed policy is inconsistent with ongoing dialogues Microsoft is having with other Massachusetts state agencies about how Microsoft products can best meet their data and records requirements for a variety of data types - ranging from traditional documents to pictures, audio, video, voice, voice-over-IP, data, database schema, web pages, and XML information. As we look to the future, and all of these data types become increasingly intertwined, locked-in formats like OpenDocument are not well suited to address these varying data types - as the proposed policy itself acknowledges. It's this need for choice and flexibility that led Microsoft to design Office in a way that supports any XML schemas that a customer chooses, a capability lacking in less functional formats.”
Alan Yates
“There is a huge installed base of customers (over 400 million) using Windows XP, and Microsoft would gain nothing by causing pain or concern among those customers to somehow manipulate their adoption plans for Windows Vista.”
“With 1.2, when you ran the Outlook client, you had two calendars -- one in Microsoft CRM and one in Outlook. They didn't talk to each other. With the new version, you have one calendar integrated between the two. When I schedule an appointment with one of my accounts, it will actually ask me if I want to record it in CRM. It's cleaner.”
Arne Huse
