Industry Watchers: Don&#39;t Think Microsoft Is Down for the Count
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Just because Microsoft has said it will comply immediately with a European Court judge&#39;s order to follow specified antitrust remedies doesn&#39;t mean life will be a bowl of cherries for Microsoft&#39;s partners, developers and even its competitors.
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Microsoft is, for once, trying to play nicely.  This is why it's failing.
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By David DeKok, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.  Feb. 1--Whether Microsoft Corp.'s new Vista operating system succeeds or  flops might depend less on what individual users think than on the opinions of  computer gurus at large institutions and corporations.
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LONDON--Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking to a gathering of reporters here, didn&#39;t pass up the opportunity to take several digs at archrival Apple Computer.
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Thanks to a decline in Microsoft shares, the stock portion of the company's offer has dropped. That means that as of now Microsoft is offering less than it was four days ago. To match its original $31 per share offer, Microsoft would have to boost the exc
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Microsoft&#39;s quarterly results released Thursday make clear that the software maker is becoming a much different company than the one Bill Gates started back in 1975.
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With its legal jargon, economic analysis and software-speak, yesterday&#39;s court ruling on the European Commission&#39;s antitrust sanctions against Microsoft was not an easy read.
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Microsoft Corp. isn&#39;t often an underdog in anything, so when the software powerhouse released its new search engine, I was anxious to give it a whirl.
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The predictable flood of 2008 IT prognostications has rolled in over the past few weeks, and we have listened to analysts, vendors, consultants, and our geek friends, accepting some forecasts and rejecting others. Turns out we did pretty well culling the wheat from the chaff last year and gazing ahead, though maybe we weren&#39;t bold enough in our declarations. So this year, we&#39;ll stretch a little and predict:
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Many of Microsoft's partners kicked off last week's Worldwide Partner Conference last week uneasy about the Redmond giant's big push into the software-plus-services arena, but in the wake of the gathering the majority of attendees appear to be upbeat about the possibilities.
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Almost everything that can be said has been said about the latest moves by Microsoft to create Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) about Linux. Countless pundits and analysts have pointed out that Microsoft threats are toothless. Some have noted that Microsoft has singled out Linux and OpenOffice, the biggest threats to its monopoly on operating systems and office suites. Surely Microsoft could claim that the *BSDs infringe on similar patents if not the same ones. But the *BSDs do not pose as great a threat to the company. Others have pointed out that Microsoft would be insane to pull an SCO and sue its own customers. Still others have noted that IBM and/or OIN could respond to a patent war with a massive retaliation in patent infringement claims. I have no doubt that Microsoft has lifted a lot of GPL code (more likely algorithms) for Windows, which would prevent Microsoft from following through with its threats. To do so would require that Microsoft open its own code to scrutiny. The list goes on, and others have covered the angles very well. There is one perspective I haven't yet seen, at least not the way I propose to deal with it. This perspective follows below.
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That's not all. Microsoft also has new tools geared to help cut costs of managing corporate data.
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A report penned by one of Microsoft's top security experts argues that Windows Vista had fewer known security flaws in its first year of release than other major industry operating systems. On the blogs, skeptics abound.
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Since hardly anyone believed Microsoft&#39;s earlier claim that Longhorn would ship in the first half of 2006, the official move to the second half is not of great consequence.
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Europe's latest shot across Microsoft's bow shouldn't faze investors.
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Although it is not yet widely visible to the outside world, some people inside Microsoft are beginning to break that mold.
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Its Workplace package is catching on with clients, and more software makers are signing on. Still, it&#39;s no Windows smasher. IBM launched a bold foray into desktop computing last spring, when it took on Microsoft&#39;s