You have the skeptics saying, 'OK, they're taking on Adobe and Macromedia,' which are pretty known in the space. [Microsoft] faces stiff competition there, but it's still Microsoft. Anytime they show up in a market, you have to take them seriously.

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They have to do this to survive, compete and thrive, because MSN is in a pitched battle with Yahoo, Google and AOL ( NYSE: AOL - news ), which have created their own Web developer platforms.

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You know all those extra lines of code that we sometimes refer to as bloatware. It's actually very important and efficient stuff. There is some very substantial functionality built into the operating system.

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They are getting better on tools and things, and they can afford the best and the brightest. They're one of the few companies that has not had layoffs.

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Over the years, Microsoft has guarded its source code very carefully. It's been very measured in how it's approached complying with that particular part of the sanctions.

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At this point, it is impacting about 10 percent of the market. One of the questions industry has to answer is exactly how will corporations integrate the data they obtain through RSS feeds into their analysis processes.

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It's a communist country, and that will come into play at some point. It will be interesting to see how politics and business mix as these firms keep pouring money into China.

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If you do not know what is on your network, if you cannot at least estimate the hourly, monthly or yearly cost of downtime, if you do not know how long it takes to recover from a security outage, if you cannot answer questions about the extent of your company's license compliance, then you cannot truly evaluate whether Linux , Windows or Unix is right for your business.

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For the past few years, the word proprietary has meant 'bad' software, ... But I think people are going to start thinking twice before building their own systems with open-source software in the next year or two.

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