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I was working on two things last week. One was the impact of the recession on the tech market and what would likely happen to tech spending; and the second was the release of Windows Vista SP1, which I've been using for several months on a number of machines. On the recession side, I've been particularly focused on what is likely to be an adverse impact on some, but not all, "green" initiatives and how the recession will increase the number of hostile takeovers...

Palm has frittered away a prime opportunity it once had to dominate the smartphone market, commented Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group "Palm is a company that should own the space occupied by RIM and iPhone," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "The reality h...

Quattrone "clearly does have a public perception problem that he'll have to recover from, but he was accused of something that was almost impossible for the general public to understand, and he was cleared," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "I think he's in reasonably good shape."

Over the last two weeks, I attended a huge HP lab event, watched Apple launch the iPhone SDK brilliantly, and saw one of the strongest consumer laptop lines launched by Acer. All three vendors are growing in the 30 percent range in the PC market; Acer just passed Dell for the No. 2 spot in the notebook market; and all three vendors have smartphone efforts in their infancy...

Similarly, the face-to-face meetings are a chance for Microsoft to soothe Yahoo's nerves about what a merged entity would look like, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "The goal of these meetings is to make the acquisition target comfortable ...

Last week was filled with what could represent the beginning of one of the biggest overall changes to the cell phone market. The short-term change was the announcement of a solid and apparently well-controlled developer platform coupled with the long anticipated Exchange integration announcement. However, bigger than that and longer-term was the announcement of Intel's new Atom platform, which forecasts the death and rebirth of a better iPhone...

"Microsoft was clearly trying to block this deal but, because they are not in best graces with the EU, their ability to do this was badly compromised," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "It reflects on the fact that Microsoft's competitors, like Google, have access to tools that currently don't work for Microsoft," such as getting regulators to take their side...

I've been talking about heroes for several weeks now, most recently the folks at HP who are overcoming the company's internal bureaucracy to turn what had been a problem unit -- its PC unit -- into the most powerful PC entity in the world ...

"This is really bad timing," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "This is a platform that does use the new product, and it could have had something to do with the overall deployment of the new technology." Windows Server 20...

With its new features and enhanced tools, Windows Server 2008 has enjoyed a better reception than Windows Vista and has been deployed by a number of companies in beta, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "The product has been designed to han...

The suit likely won't impact Microsoft much except, perhaps, as a lesson, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "I think this showcases expectations that were missed at the front end with Vista," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Their big problem is getting ...

Last week, HP turned in a financial report that seemed to provide a strong counterpoint to the view that the world was heading into a recession, or at least that tech was going to be sacrificed to that recession ...

While regulatory pressure drove some of the detailed moves, the changes are just the visible part of "one of the biggest fundamental changes in Microsoft since it became a major player," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told LinuxInsider "This truly is the early fac...

Last week continued the excitement with Yahoo as it worked to get Microsoft to increase its offer by trying out alternatives but not really finding any good ones ...

The latest changes are a reflection of larger trends within Microsoft, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "This is happening at an unprecedented rate across the company," he said, due to "the combination of a now aggressive acquisition strate...

"Going up to $40 will be tough," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Microsoft's offer was already 60 percent higher than Yahoo's trading price, so that will be really hard for Microsoft to justify." More likely, End...

I've had a little time to think about the Yahoo/Microsoft merger, why this makes sense and what could go wrong. This thing actually should be one of the easiest mergers of its type, and there is actually a strange amount of affinity, often taken for granted, between these two firms that most seem to not know about. In addition, I'm amazed at how many people are being outspoken on how bad the Macbook Air is, and I think it is time to re-look at just what a flagship product is supposed to be and reset expectations a little bit. Folks, once you understand what this product is intended to do, it really isn't that bad...

This last week I spent some quality time at HP, and I'm frankly amazed at what the PC team has been able to accomplish in terms of overcoming what I've termed the "Big Company Disease." ...

Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really upset, not once but twice, and thought I would share why this week...

"Clearly they're in good financial shape," Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. While Microsoft had been seen as a mature, safe company while other tech firms were growing much faster, circumstances may help change that perception. "Over the last few years, much of their revenue has been almost institutionalized because it's built on large-scale enterprise agreements. On one hand, that means it doesn't change that much, but on the other hand, it means it may be relatively bulletproof when economic conditions change...