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These are the most recent articles mentioning "microsoft"
Mr Ellison has been characteristically dismissive of VMware. He recently compared the company to Netscape, and predicted that Microsoft would quickly eclipse it as it did the browser pioneer. For good measure, he added that the base layer of software on which virtualisation depends, called a hyperv...
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worked there lost their mojo. Sometimes the thing an operational background gives you is perspective.
Vmware is facing a battle equivalent to the Microsoft-Netscape battle of today. They have virtually created (pun intended) the virtualization category yet they’ve done it in a way that no ...
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trifecta solution.
Google has been making forays into the SMB market of course, trying to take the low end of the enterprise space as they attack Microsoft on the underbelly. SMBs, a largely unpenetrated market, has been a “holy grail” for many enterprise technology firms: greatly de...
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ecuted throughout the marketing value chain, although they certainly did not call it that.
As Palm grew and generated more competitors, especially Microsoft’s PocketPC, Palm’s greatly expanded organization responded with bloated products that competed with long list of features. The b...
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ish I had done it.
Worth noting that Adobe is making the Open Source move . And it’s about time. On a related note, an article about how Microsoft's inconsistency around open source is an issue.
Best line:
“Cause while Microsoft may think we are playing Monopoly (" Go dire...
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commerce online. Thus, all commerce.
To create a market, is to solve something that no one else even realizes could be a business. Think Oracle, Microsoft, Ebay and you go back to their early starts and it was considered a throw-back, low value idea. Really. It takes a bit of time in technology...
The PC era came into an end when open took over. Dell, IBM, Microsoft all had market power. And then Open Source + white boxes came along.
Now decentralization is driving innovation. No one owns web 2.0. Small teams of 5 or 7 create, and then mash ups and with the alternative business models av...
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ts launched itself into serving the SMB market and while a lucrative market unto itself, seems ready and poised to take on the enterprise market ala Microsoft themselves.
Oracle’s—having acquired PeopleSoft to grow in the SMB market— has been achieving success with its Oracle E-...
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irms often continue building more feature-rich products and services to better serve familiar and profitable customers. I would suggest that is what Microsoft is doing today with Vista, what Macromedia used to do with Dreamweaver and Flash, and what SAP has done with Netweaver. As soon as a pro...
At Microsoft Silicon Valley offices, at a conference.
Sign in the coffee room.
"Friends Don't Let Friends go to Dot.coms" scratching my head at how to apply this line of advice (referring to a white paper I sent on permeable markets) to a large highly profitable business. In the last sessi...
A colleague (on the client side) is preparing a Microsoft defense strategy, and talked to my team recently about what to do to prepare. We helped him in terms of process steps: the need to build a common data set, do some role playing that will break traditional roles people already serve in the o...
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atforms, we believe the software platforms of the future may be layers that run across all those competing operating systems, with Adobe's Apollo and Microsoft WPF/E both key players, coming to market in the first half of 2007.
2. Did you talk about Microsoft Vista at your New Year's party in ...
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central to Next Innovation Cycle
The key to the next evolution is managing information. It's not about whether writely or spreadsheet apps replace Microsoft office. It is about how we consume, share, and manage information. Our information is the critical element. And yet we harbor it in little...
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Bruce Chizen , CEO of Adobe, took the stage at Web 2.0 summit and talked about being thankful that Google exists as a "Heat Shield" for holding off Microsoft. At the same time, he talked that Windows and Microsoft "is effectively dead".
When John Battelle says "you sound like Scott McNealy"...
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gle has garnered is ground shaking and will give them lots of room to fail (if / when they do).
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Consumer Marketing , Microsoft , Yahoo , Web 2.0 , Customer Research , Web 2.0 Summit , Google
ion is the critical element. And yet we harbor it in little...
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ng materials, natural cooling design, and solar power. Good adjacent market to invest in...
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Market Expansion , Cisco , Microsoft , Web 2.0 Summit
iculously easy . And if you were Yahoo yesterday, you'd know your brand has little value in the teen audience. And,...
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ques evaluate ideas is a little disheartening but perhaps comforting at one level.
John Wood, the founder of Room to Read just wrote in, Leaving Microsoft to change the world, "that if there is something out there you want to do...don't focus on the obstacles. Don't ask for permission. Just div...
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commitment up front while offering lots of upside to publishers from heavy users. If you are a consumer, you no longer need to buy a $299 package of Microsoft Office, you could use Google desktop instead.
In the same way as full-service comprehensive meals went by the way side in America, tech...
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wever, unlike grade school, you might have more ability to influence this selection.
Do developers really matter?
Major companies like eBay, Microsoft, Adobe, Nokia, Motorola, Intuit and others have focused on the developer community. Within Web 2.0, the developer world is a critical consid...
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a larger effort. If someone is going to throw a dinner party, then they might use Evite to generate a list of guests and gather RSVPs, they might use Microsoft Excel to put together the recipes and calculate the recipe sizes. Effectively, they would go ‘offline’ to plan the meal. Then th...
I couldn’t believe this story ; I thought for sure it had to be a hoax. After all, Microsoft has the economics, savvy, and operating experience to do marketing right.
But apparently not.
Here's what happened:
Microsoft wanted to raise awareness of it's licensing program. Makes ...
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rise software is starting to look much like consumer marketing. (This makes me happy.) Companies that already have consumer marketing skills, such as Microsoft and Adobe, are in a very good position to take advantage of this. Companies that know how to sell only through IT managers are at risk and ...
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rise software is starting to look much like consumer marketing. (This makes me happy.) Companies that already have consumer marketing skills, such as Microsoft and Adobe, are in a very good position to take advantage of this. Companies that know how to sell only through IT managers are at risk and ...
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e Journal reported today that talks between MSFT and Adobe broke down earlier this week. The issue is whether PDF will become a built-in feature of Microsoft's office.
The issue Adobe is whether users of Microsoft's Office software, which include the Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications, w...
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ho has the best developer model could win. Now watch that play out: Google has it with web search and maps and advertising. Yahoo with photo storage. Microsoft with Windows Live. Adobe with Flash.
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ut, while Adobe certainly has a high grou...
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e when the enemy can't attack.
A good example of a company that has a strong affinity for a seemingly inconsequential area of software is Intuit. Microsoft tried to enter the financial software space and Intuit's extremely strong, loyal user base was one of their biggest assets in that war. When...
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s not the past you need to worry about, or even to some degree the present, it’s the future.
In this newsletter, we talk about the many ways Microsoft is attacking technology markets, what blogging can and should do for businesses, the continuing SaaS evolution and the opportunity it repres...
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on between different features / usages. Desktop software could change from a whole bunch of options to a few standard suites. Over the last 10 years, Microsoft has combined different software so now there is 1 standard package called 'office'. Could there be one called 'beauty' from Adobe that will ...
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find a relevant statistic for high-tech firms, but it has to be one out of a 20 succeed. And this statistic applies to the stronger, mature old guys (Microsoft, Oracle) doing market expansion, and the up and comers creating a new category. So it's a brave company that tries to do market expansion...
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