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Both of the issues at hand, however, have further hurt the company's lagging stock price and likely shaken clients of the second largest Linux vendor, Yankee Group Senior Analyst Laura DiDio told LinuxInsider "Anytime you get a delisting notice from Nasdaq it's a big red flag,...

"The EU has made it clear that it takes a very hard line view of what makes a deal anticompetitive," said Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio. "As Microsoft has already found out, what passes as acceptable in other markets may not pass the muster of regulators in Europe." ...

If Microsoft's current efforts to comply don't meet EU approval, it may well dig in its heels and wait for the courts to intercede, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said. "They're going to try to satisfy the EU, but they're not going to give away the store to do it," she added...

Microsoft has long viewed the compatibility requirement as the most onerous of the sanctions it faced, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times. Microsoft appeared to be making efforts to comply as a way of helping to get beyond the issues, she added "Micros...

Unfortunately, Novell has frittered away all of its opportunities over the years, Laura DiDio, a senior analyst with the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. For example, its acquisition of Suse's Linux products a few years ago was widely viewed as a smart move. Since then, though, Novell has significantly cut its engineering resources...

"The announcement in and of itself that Google has inked a deal and is teaming up with Adobe is not earth shattering, but the fact that they're making the Google Toolbar available ... on Explorer is clearly a shot across the bow of Microsoft," Yankee Group Senior Analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld...

Taylor was clearly a rising star within the software giant, given his recent ascendancy to the VP role, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio noted. The news of his departure, shortly after the news about Gates dialing down his own involvement, might give some customers and investors pause, she said, but the bottom line will continue to be Microsoft's ability to execute on its broad and bold strategic initiatives...

Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said she expects a "protracted, orderly transition" and noted that Gates plans to keep his chairman title, which along with his 10 percent ownership stake will make him a continuing presence DiDio noted Gates has indicated that "he has planned ...

HP is making its blade upgrade as demand for the thin server technology and accompanying virtualization potential garner significant attention and demand from the market, three-quarters of which plan to deploy server virtualization technology, Yankee Group Senior Analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld...

"Microsoft doesn't want to be seen giving in to regulators on matters of what it considers intellectual property and its innovations," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times. Even though it's settled most of the private antitrust suits against it, capitulation on the protocols may encourage more actions to come. "Microsoft has dipped into its cash reserves to settle those suits because it was able to do so on its own terms to some extent," DiDio noted...

Although Microsoft is once again spreading itself broadly as it looks to sell more aggressively to the business market, the company's half-billion dollar marketing push for People-Ready is an obvious threat to competitors, Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld...

Piracy is becoming more dangerous for end-users, in fact, with hacked or illegal versions often containing malicious code that can be used to infect PCs with viruses or to install Trojan horses that can be used to steal private data, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said "Pira...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio, however, said Microsoft is criticized no matter what it does, and has to respond aggressively to security concerns for its customers "Microsoft never wanted to be in the security business, but in a way, they have to," she told TechNewsW...

"Microsoft has shown it will dip into its huge cash reserves to settle the private cases that it can," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times, referring to settlements with AOL, Sun and IBM, among others. "Regulators have asked for Microsoft to let down its guard on what it considers its most valuable asset -- intellectual property."

"This year we saw a lot of CIOs and a lot of big businesses signing off on open-source projects," Laura DiDio, a senior analyst with the Yankee Group in Boston, told LinuxInsider "We saw a lot more applications being written," she continued, "and we've seen a lot more acceptan...

"Microsoft can afford to make payments to end the private cases," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said. "But it has a long history of guarding its source code vigorously, and the change of philosophy required to throw it open -- and to competitors, at that -- is significant."

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times that the News Corp. online effort may be limited somewhat by the media company's tardiness "It's going to be tough going in now to see any kind of profits in the short term, [which was easier] in 2000 or 2001," ...

Microsoft plays the role of smaller challenger to database leaders Oracle and IBM in that space, but the company clearly sees an opportunity to gain market share while it protects its current install base, according to Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio "People have been ...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said that, although Microsoft will benefit from its competitor's missteps, Google remains "king of the hill" when it comes to Internet search The analyst said the book search announcement serves as a reminder that MSN Search was also a p...

However, Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio indicated a substantial or controlling investment in AOL from Google, Microsoft, or one of the other reported suitors may be far more likely given the difficulty and history of large player acquisitions "You have to be very care...