Microsoft Faces 3 Big Threats
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| Microsoft COO Kevin Turner outlines the challenges the company faces,
| including Linux and competition with the Xbox.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2172177,00.asp
And who do they ask to balance Kevin Turner's view? The man who is paid to hate
Linux and lies about it,
Related:
Enderle got it wrong (as usual)
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| When Rob Enderle questions SCO's litigators and lawyers — they were not
| experts, they were not paid enough, etc. —, he simply expose himself as being
| as morally corrupt as SCO is: he never questioned SCO's moral right to sue,
| he only followed "the race" and made some "technical objections". Money pay
| the verdict, right? (The money paid to the lawyers, that is.)
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/08/15/09/05/44-enderle-got-it-wrong-as-usual-
SCO, Linux, and Microsoft in the History of OS: 1970s
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| The Odd Couple of SCO.
|
| Forbes' Daniel Lyons, along with Rob Enderle, long maintained that the SCO
| Group would prevail in lawsuits attacking users of Linux. They frequently
| wrote not only about how doomed Linux itself was, but also how delusional its
| supporters were. Their joint crusade against Linux frequently cited each
| other’s comments.
|
| In a Forbes article entitled “Revenge of the Nerds,” Lyons scoured Internet
| message boards to find sensationalist comments from readers supporting Linux,
| framing them to suggest anyone interested in Linux was insane. Lyons
| added, “Robert Enderle, an analyst who believes SCO's claims might be
| legitimate, says he and others also have been threatened, and says
| this ‘techno-insanity’ verges on terrorism.”
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http://roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/8C9E3322-921D-4A9D-BDCC-671A205906AF.html
Dell Linux set to shake up OS market
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| However, Enderle cautioned that Linux users, by their nature, tend to
| buy at the lowest price points. "If Dell cannot get them to accept
| prices that provide acceptable margins, or change their buying habits
| to make them upsell targets for products like business productivity
| and security software, the experiment is doomed," he said.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2187517/dell-linux-set-shake-market
Rob Enderle: 'I started writing about Linux because I was told I couldn't and
the more people told me I couldn't, and particularly when they said 'or
else,' the more the Linux dirty laundry became attractive to me'
Rob Enderle: 'I saw what appeared to be a word-for-word copy of about every
third line of code in the central module of the Linux kernel'
Rob Enderle: 'many Linux supporters are a bunch of potty-mouthed malcontents.
Enterprises are better off staying away from Linux and open source'
Rob Enderle: 'Linux is being widely used on the desktop in the third world,
where applications are limited and labor is inexpensive...'
Rob Enderle: 'I have a hard time seeing the Zealots as any different from
terrorist... I strongly believe that if September 11 showed us anything, it
was that zealots'
Linux fails to defend itself against imaginary FUD problem
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| I wouldn't normally respond to pleas for attention, but Rob Enderle's
| latest piece on Linux and FUD cannot escape comment.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/linux_fails_to.html
Microsoft Xbox to Join the Battle for Video Downloading
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| Editors' Note: November 10, 2006, Friday An article in Business Day
| on Tuesday described a decision by Microsoft to offer movies and
| episodes of television shows for downloading through its Xbox Live
| online service in the United States.
|
| The article quoted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle
| Group, discussing the features that set Xbox Live service apart
| and its position in the market.
|
| But the article did not note that Mr. Enderle had Microsoft as a client,
| a fact later pointed out by a reader. Mr. Enderle does consulting work
| for several of Microsoft's product groups, though not for the one
| developing the Xbox; still, had The Times known of Mr. Enderle's work
| for Microsoft, it would not have sought out his opinion on the product.
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http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50713F83A5B0C748CDDA80994DE404482
http://tinyurl.com/y3avsv
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
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| The New York Times continues to perplex with its analyst- quoting
| policy. Rather than having analysts declare their ties to clients,
| the paper would prefer to quote analysts that have no experience
| with a client - a protocol which seems to undermine the very point
| of citing analysts.
|
| The Register this week started pushing the Times to explain its
| quoting stance after noticing that Rob Enderle - the most quoted
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
| technology analyst on the planet - had been blocked from commenting
| on companies with which he has a financial relationship. The ban
| against Enderle appeared odd, given that Times reporters continue
| to cite analysts from larger firms who also have financial
| relationships with the companies discussed.
|
| [...]
|
| As it turns out, there's a cottage industry devoted to Rob
| Enderle, where Linux zealots fire off this form letter to editors
| whenever Enderle appears talking about Microsoft. Perhaps the Linux
| crowd could put its fabled collective mind toward creating letters
| for all the major analysts. Lord knows, the Times could use
| some help.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
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