If you wanted to buy a machine that would still be a viable box in five years, this has that argument.

This will enable the neighborhoods where it is installed to experience next-generation Web applications and programming at acceptable speeds.

The GPS navigation market is poised for rapid growth in the US in 2006. The most successful GPS products will be those with affordable prices, strong performance, and a simple user interface.

It’s the next big thing. In the next few years you won’t see a laptop without this kind of technology built in.

They put in a number of their top assets to really turn the group around. Going forward, they have a team that can execute and meet their dates.

In terms of the level of importance, this would be ”’ in this space ”’ the same thing as Apple announcing they were going to be using Intel processors,

Microsoft [has] to be prepared for the future need to adopt certain behaviors that are much more in line with the people who develop and use software, … That’s why Ozzie was selected for this...

A few years back you couldn’t point to a single Dell laptop and suggest that it was something anybody wanted to carry. We’ve seen these products become much more attractive over time.

The capability is there to make it look like an Aqua clone. This is going to be a very Apple-like launch.

Once you have the link open, you should be able to get the (Internet Protocol) address on the other side. If the drives are password protected, it is far more difficult to get access.

It does demonstrate that non-competes are enforceable in some states. Transfers of critical employees between competitors come with a certain amount of risk.

IE has been frozen for a number of years largely at the request of large corporations that didn’t want to upgrade and impact the stability of their systems. The result was that new browsers were...

[AMD’s launch places Intel in the unfamiliar position of following another company’s technology lead to market. AMD’s launch caught Intel] flat-footed, … Intel doesn’t have a good 64-bit transition strategy.

The big unanswered question in the market is whether Apple hardware could successfully sell with Windows on it, and by successful, I mean be competitive to a degree that it could grow Apple’s hardware share...

Whenever Microsoft wins one in this space, it’s the little guy winning.

It’s going to take a few versions until this can be a world-killing product, but over time, if it’s done right, it could certainly be as big as the PC ever was.

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.

When we made the move from 16 to 32 bits, we were asking why we needed to make the move, … But by mid-decade no one doubted it. We always go through this cycle.

Considering how a phone gets treated, having a hard drive in them doesn’t make much sense to me,

[In fact, Windows CE has been blamed for the lackluster acceptance of keyboarded handhelds in general, which some analysts say aren’t useful for much other than e-mail retrieval.] When are they going to get it...

Right now, this is about a monopoly against the European people and they [Microsoft] can’t win that.

I think it’s the foundation of something really big. But there will be a problem in trying to find a way in describing this without all the technical jargon. I call it a personal media...

Mobile broadband, which recently entered the U.S. market, is rapidly becoming the ‘must have’ technology in an industry already accelerating its shift away from desktop computers. This high-speed, broad-reach wireless technology opens up a serious...

There isn’t a player on the desktop that’s at greater risk of losing share to IBM here than Microsoft,

Motorola and Microsoft have been working increasingly together on a series of fronts. This is just one more step to show and allow Motorola to differentiate in an area that they dominate in the United...

Walker Digital doesn’t look like much more than an idea house that comes up with ideas, then sues people who come up with similar ones. I think that kind of behavior is very similar to...

Typically Microsoft issues the Office copy for the Mac after they offer it for the PC. It always lags by about a year.

There’s always been a belief that Microsoft would respond punitively if you did something they didn’t like. You were afraid of Microsoft’s reaction, … That belief has been pretty much destroyed. Vendors, clients and customers...

Hopefully they’ll learn this lesson — that they absolutely cannot come out years in advance of a product and talk about a wish list of things that may or may not make it in.

The phone is rapidly becoming a window to the world. In many ways it’s becoming a replacement for the PC.

It expands the capacity of USB so that you can use broadband devices, which was the whole reason for 1394 to exist.

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.

This clearly will be among the fastest services in the world when it launches.

That may lower the attractiveness of the offering. Right now, we’re getting all of the good news. When it’s released is when we’ll get the bad news. It’s in the hype stage.

For it to be amazing, it would have to come in at an aggressive price.

[Microsoft] grew to a point where they thought they were big enough they could weather any storm, … I think they’ve been reminded recently that nobody’s really big enough.

A 600-MHz machine will come with a bigger hard drive, a better video subsystem. It’s really become the Cadillac of the line, while the Celeron is a respectable, high-end Chevy.

Trading floors are already going to flat-panel displays, for example. And health care services like flat panels because CRT emissions can interfere with medical instruments.

This is a very practical design.

It’s a huge market and largely untapped right now. Kids want phones, but nothing really deals with their parents’ concerns. This will quickly spread to all of the wireless services.

They have a lot of respect in the industry for their research history, but there is a perception that they are staid,

After one year, the company doesn’t look the way it did under Carly.

This company has a lot of leading-edge chip designers behind them, as well as the inventor of Linux. So they’ve got the skills set to develop something that is based around the current paradigm that...

It is the biggest cloak-and-dagger company we’ve ever seen,

For the most part, the appeal of these devices is very generational. In many cases, as you move up in age, it becomes increasingly a male audience.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say WAP is dead. But the idea that an IT manager or Webmaster should have to learn WML to create a WAP site is hogwash, … The idea...

Every company I speak with is talking about it. The concern level is very high.

How do handset manufacturers get around screen size and entry method? Voice may be the way we are going to end up, but voice requires a lot of processing power,

Certainly the new iMac is a powerful offering, and Steve Jobs has pulled another rabbit out of his hat, … But their biggest problem will continue to be their ability to get parts.

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