They are the only company that can come in on top of technology like cable boxes and routers that is already inside homes. Everyone else has to build from scratch.

In the near term this is not going to have much impact on Microsoft’s behavior. The biggest change is what other companies do with Microsoft,

Whenever you confuse the consumer, they defer purchases.

Because the litigation has become so much of what they are, the lawsuits tend to eclipse anything else they try to do. And if it goes bad for them with IBM, I doubt anything they...

The overseas market isn’t saturated like the U.S..

This is a potentially market-changing event. My sense is that this is going to increase Apple’s market share dramatically.

That’s a significant amount of money. I honestly believe that’s going to change a lot of minds in terms of providing programming for this medium.

I think something that’s developed from scratch will have a much better shot at taking on the desktop, as opposed to something that’s got the age behind it that Linux does.

[Still, no one’s ever done anything like this before, so we don’t know yet if it’s an improvement on existing indexes. With a statistical pool of nearly 15,000,] it’s hard to qualify the respondents, …...

It’s been languishing quite a bit and is reminiscent of the old IBM. As a company reaches a certain size, it loses its edge.

I would argue this is the first major step towards a subscription operating system.

Apple was losing a lot of bids,

Granted, it was fairly early. [But] we do remember that people were downloading things across remote servers across what became the Internet at that time,

With Microsoft bleeding a certain number of people to companies like Google, putting Ozzie in that position sends a message to employees that they will be loved,

The thing that makes me so nervous is that there are no hardware (manufacturers) here. I don’t have anything to wrap my arms around and say, Ah, yes, this is something that’s coming to market...

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...

I can’t think of any company in the consumer space that will get hurt as a result of the delay.

Motorola will do whatever it takes to maintain its dominant position and if that means doing stuff on Linux it means doing stuff Linux. If that means doing stuff on Microsoft then they’ll do stuff...

Now that the settlement is done, RIM can work on improving their relationship with their customers.

The consumer market is largely a fourth-quarter market nowadays, and this will severely damage the market. There is no way around it.

It doesn’t appear to be particularly well-integrated. It’s not elegant. Ideally, you’d have one single device instead of two devices bundled together.

There will be a vastly improved user experience, particularly for the 9x users, … It is far more stable, reliable and secure than the 9x base. Unlike Windows 95, this actually delivers on the promises.

She thought she could dictate loyalty. She didn’t have to build it.

Companies have always liked the subscription approach. It sets expenses for the software. What they haven’t liked is the performance hit that came with subscription services in the past.

We already know when consumers don’t buy in the fourth quarter, they don’t come back in the first quarter. This has created a market opportunity that is unprecedented for Apple if they can execute.

They have completely crossed over into La-La Land.

He is Mr. Sun. There wouldn’t be a Sun if there wasn’t Scott.

Clearly, Dell is targeted by this move.

Linux keeps Microsoft working hard in the government and education markets. … Without Microsoft, they would be a lot more fragmented, … Both of them require the other to be in place.

Dell is the main driver in the price wars, so the price wars will keep going. Dell has already said they will continue it.

Tablets are a very lucrative sector,

The business market wants low-maintenance devices. Appliances can get close to this profile,

This is going to be a tough second half of the year for Apple. No matter where you look, it’s stormy clouds.

No vendor other than Apple has really stepped up to the combination of design, marketing and user experience that is required by this segment.

Few things could have done more damage to the 2006 PC market then the slip of Windows Vista. This will have an adverse impact on a broad cross section of components and platform PC suppliers...

They were a company waiting to die, … They’ve done some work to make the property more attractive. The portal strategy is what gave them a future. It’s nowhere near where it needs to be,...

Monday is only the first step. From there, they’ll have to fight every step of the way to prevent any lack of confidence from turning into a downward spiral while they fight this thing.

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.