Rob Enderle Against Quotations

Right now it is Microsoft against the EU, and that is a huge imbalance.

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.

Once you start raising unfairness questions, and you're the dominant player, then it would be very easy for somebody to use those arguments against you.

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.

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.

This Unix component is working against them. It's basically Unix with an Apple front end, but from the administrators' point of view, all they see is Unix.