The analogue on the car side is probably Porsche. Because its design is so important to users, it has a lot more impact on the market than its market share would indicate.

It is one of the more interesting ideas that has come up of late. And one that I think has the potential to really transform the way we play with the Web.

I see him more as a king maker at Disney than a king.

Microsoft has always been light on the collaborative side, … It’s about time they show what Groove is going to turn into at Microsoft.

It would probably crash the [PC] consumer market, given that being able to [copy] songs is one of the reasons that people are buying new machines,

He was an instrumental part of making the Internet happen. When your on the Web and doing shopping, say a little prayer for Scott because he’s part of what got you there.

Online TV is going to make inroads into traditional forms. That can be a threat to the traditional providers of content or it can be an opportunity as well.

Users need to have a contingency plan, regardless of the outcome of the merger. In the current environment, we’re dealing with a risk-averse audience, and they don’t want to put their jobs on the line...

Given the fact that the desktop market space is predominately Windows, the results show an unusually high degree of dissatisfaction with the existing product and . . . a willingness to move to something else...

[Vista’s array of visual tools, which go by names such as Acrylic, Sparkle, and Quartz] dramatically improves the Web-based visual toolset available and probably goes further to explain why Adobe felt the need to acquire...

Appliances will be based on browsers, and it’s the service you care about,

With these devices content is king, … The more content you can get on them, the more valuable they are.

We’re right now at the forefront of another major change.

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don’t move.

Intellectual property litigation has been increasing steadily for the last several years. Microsoft’s indemnification stands as one of the most comprehensive in the market, setting a high bar for competing platforms.

This is an initiative to create a high level of integration and is almost a complete reorganization of the Microsoft architecture, … But I haven’t seen anything new they’ve done that has gotten me excited.

It’s the product launch you look at to see if they got the merger right. This shows they’re back up and running and open for business, which is important because in a merger, people forget...

This is a major slip with material consequences. Missing the fourth quarter will have a significant impact on consumer sales.

I think you can say that Sun is being aggressive in actually getting Grid computing out there as part of the base load on a number of systems. You are not paying extra for it;...

It’s becoming more and more of an entertainment event and less of a trade show. Its a good place for people to go and talk about technology, but at some point it just becomes a...

When you’ve got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

The next big wave for computers, at least as far as we can tell, is going to be these modular designs, so it’s a race to see which major brand does it first,

Whenever the largest online retailer makes a decision, it’s going to be a big deal. They’re the bellwether for their segment. What they do, others will likely do or consider doing.

There really isn’t much depth to this partnership.

Gateway has been meeting its commitments, … It makes a promise, and it fulfills that promise. That’s something Gateway hasn’t done for years.

This looks a lot like 15 years ago, when IBM was dominant and similar surveys showed a high tendency to switch from IBM to another vendor. The difficulty is that we’re still waiting for the...

Having a portable, personal Web device opens the door to a number possibilities, such as sharing and updating all kinds of information, in real-time,

He’s really getting the financials and operations in good order and making strong management and organizational decisions, as opposed to going after every opportunity on the planet. Those decisions are very hard to make, because...

We were all expecting a little bit more.

He will be helping guide Google along what undoubtedly will be a very difficult path.

They bring different strengths to the table. Compaq has done a better job in regard to engineering an entire line. On the other hand, HP has been strong in consumer products.

[IT managers] should set standards of machines that they will support and then lock down on those standards. These things proliferate like a virus.

Companies didn’t build a lot of inventory. Everyone based their build numbers on crappy consumer-confidence numbers. For certain high-demand products, companies are going to run out.

The product is clearly now really late.

They had credibility for a while. Now they need to show it.

It’s a lucrative market, and a great audience. These are people who spend money and replace their machines on a regular basis.

The company had become almost unmanageable, … In the past two and a half years, it felt like you just couldn’t get anything done. The turf wars became more pronounced.

Depending on what it is you’re moving and how much of it you can move, it could really be the next killer app. It could relate to everything – from how you move movies, how...

Microsoft recognizes that its better off in the long run if it can focus on competing and innovating, … But it’s clear they have limits to how far they’re willing to go to make that...

[Investors have to ask themselves how much higher tech stocks might go when the war starts.] From a financial standpoint, we’re already at war, … Much of the impact is already felt.

AOL was a company waiting to die, Suddenly, they had a strategy that wasn’t just about putting them out of business. They washed the car and it got a lot more attractive.

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...

These kinds of affinity programs, like credit cards with your favorite sports team, were popular for a while.

The suit is likely to hurt both firms’ opportunities.

They didn’t miss this time, and there was a lot of concern.

It’s too early to call it, … The software industry is going to be seeing a lot of changes for some time — that’s the only guarantee at this point.

This is clearly an endemic problem.

I have trouble finding a study without it quickly being disqualified by who funded it,

This is Microsoft moving toward offering [all of its] software as a service, … Microsoft will ease into it because they don’t want to give up the product revenue before the services revenue can ramp...

They had a clear technology problem with laptops. They didn’t have — and IBM couldn’t seem to make — a good G5 mobile part, and that problem wasn’t going away.