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As more and more customers continue to run heterogeneous environments, Microsoft will continue to forge new open source deals, predicted Laura DiDio, a Yankee Group analyst "On average, corporations have three different operating systems present in their shops," she told Linux...

Microsoft is beginning to connect many of the logical dots between its products, rounding out a menu of offerings with things such as the so-called workplace wireless phones that debuted this week to work with its enterprise communications servers, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said...

"This is basically a must-do type of initiative," Laura DiDio, an analyst with Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Office Communications Server needs phones to communicate with." Integrating Products...

"Many might find that to be a big limitation," Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The live migration stuff is very important for small businesses." Redmond had been counting on the migration feature to help gain some ground on market leader VMw...

Microsoft is now in a position to leverage its watershed products -- Windows 2000 Server and Client -- for maximum advantage, and the market is ready, said Laura DiDio, a senior analyst at Yankee Group "Seven years after the introduction of Windows, we are seeing the fruition ...

Windows Live Hotmail has a new code foundation that will let Microsoft add improvements quickly -- something that had created difficulties in the past, according to Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group "It is now a more stable foundation," she told TechNewsWorld....

"It is truly leading-edge stuff," Laura DiDio, a Yankee Group research fellow, told LinuxInsider The software is so leading-edge that in a 2006 survey, Didio conducted measuring uptime for different operating systems such as Windows, Solaris and different versions of Linux, Ub...

"What Microsoft is doing is something even the successful third parties always fear: that the big guy, the 800-pound gorilla, suddenly decides to go after the little guy," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld Adobe will have to start "marketing hard," she added,...

Longhorn Beta 3 should help address and simplify administration tasks via improved event logging, task scheduling, enhanced remote management and the powerful scripting capabilities of Windows PowerShell, according to Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group "Microsoft ha...

"Compared to what it was required do by the U.S. and other jurisdictions, the continued demands of European regulators start to seem insurmountable at some point," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times Microsoft has said it spent millions of dollars compil...

There is no reason for Microsoft to believe that Vista isn't gaining traction with consumers, Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld XP is likely appealing to buyers looking at entry level machines, who may not want to worry about all the upgrades ne...

"This is a case of the rich getting richer and the strong getting stronger," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times. "Google has been on a run. Now people are starting to look at it as a monopoly in the making." Google is, in fact, much like a winning playe...

"These hacks are becoming more common but it really is a matter of users taking responsibility for keeping their systems updated," Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld IT managers and individual users need to keep their systems updated against thes...

Microsoft makes it clear that the Home Basic edition must run on a PC with at least an 800 MHz processor and 512 MB of system memory, Yankee Group Senior Analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times The low-end models of most PCs aren't going to come close to matching those s...

It will be interesting to know if Dell will offer distributions from more than one Linux operator, Laura DiDio, a Yankee Group research fellow, told LinuxInsider. If they opt for Red Hat and Novell, that casts a whole new light on Microsoft's controversial distribution tie-up with Novell to provide increased interoperability between Windows and Suse Linux, announced in November 2006...

"Denmark has always had a high state of preparedness, an excellent regulatory environment, and government leadership and vision, so it doesn't surprise me," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld. "It's not enough to be the biggest consumers -- and soon the United States will be supplanted in that by China and India."

"Viewing Web sites on a mobile phone is very difficult right now," Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Even with a high level of bandwidth it is an awkward experience." However, ZenZui technology is expected to ease the tough process of loading ...

Another challenge for Microsoft is that desktop and server operating system life cycles are becoming increasingly protracted, observed Laura DiDio, a senior analyst with Yankee Group "Yankee Group data shows that three out of the five businesses are holding on to these investm...

"The Backdoor Trojan has become increasing popular lately, and, if you don't know it's there, can do a lot of damage," Laura Didio, an analyst with the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld ...

The code-sharing requirement has long been the major bone of contention in Microsoft's antitrust dealing in Europe. This also has helped make the company's road there more difficult than the dealings it had with regulators in the U.S., where Microsoft was also found to have acted in violation of antitrust laws in connection with its Internet Explorer browser, and in South Korea, where the Windows Media Player has been the focus of inquiries and penalties, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times...