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"The bar is higher for Microsoft because it's Microsoft," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld, adding that one important feature that Microsoft has already indicated will ship after Longhorn is the accompanying file storage system known as WinFS. "That's something customers want now."

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said while Microsoft has frequently been settling such legal disputes -- paying hundreds of millions in the process -- the company is likely to assess all possible courses of action in the Alacritech case "What Microsoft is going to do, ...

"This survey not only sheds important new light into the battle waged between Windows and Linux, but also into the evolution of the server market," said Laura DiDio, Yankee Group senior analyst. "While researching the market traction for each vendor, we discovered that server operating systems are largely commoditized."

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio called the move a pragmatic one for Symbian, a way of responding to Microsoft's size and presence while also recognizing the increased demand for remote access to e-mail and other data via mobile handsets "Basically, it's an acknowledgme...

Despite the problems, Microsoft has succeeded with its Starter strategy, according to Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio "It's doing very, very well," she told TechNewsWorld. "They have a number of negotiations and local incentive plans. Microsoft is being very aggressive...

"Being forced to reveal its code was probably the element of the initial ruling that Microsoft is most uncomfortable about," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times Even the stripped-down Windows requirement, once seen as a sore point for Microsoft, is large...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld that given the companies' history of working together, the move is not a surprise. But it does join two of tech's biggest names "Hey, Ray Ozzie is the man," she said, highlighting the rarity of an industry figure who c...

The free version of the SQL Server, combined with indications that Microsoft may open the source code of its flagship database product, have been viewed as a reaction to open-source database gains. Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio says Microsoft is simply responding to changing customer demands...

However, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said the media center is at the heart of Microsoft's consumer strategy that has included other efforts as well. For instance, Microsoft had hoped its digital rights management technology would become the global standard, which would give it access to the all-important content owners...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said the European patent issue amounted to a "clash of ideologies," adding that the matter becomes more complex when considering that free and open-source software is currently being commercialized "The vocal opponents [to the patent dir...

"It's a tricky tightrope they need to walk between not over promising and over-hyping, and providing users, developers and [independent software vendors] enough information to [remain at the forefront of] people's minds," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said that since the most recent economic and IT downturn, companies such as HP and IBM are embracing the smaller markets, which are proving to be fruitful "Right now, IBM is trying to tap in and mine the deep vein of SMB businesses that ...

"Their argument has been once they share it, it's out there for good, so they want to take it slow," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times Some have already speculated that Microsoft would begin negotiations with server makers with licensing terms that mad...

Given Microsoft's long-range vision of the marketplace on the consumer side, the profits in the entertainment unit are a significant boost for the software maker, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times "Microsoft wants to be in the middle of the living room...

Yankee Group analyst Laura Didio told LinuxInsider that the risk is real and indemnification issues are coming to the fore "If you look at the success of Linux you have to ask how it got so good so fast," Didio said. "Well there's a reason. A lot of people will maintain that L...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio agreed, telling TechNewsWorld that Microsoft must encourage development without exceeding its capabilities and commitments "Obviously, it's a long time before Longhorn," DiDio said. "So they have to walk the fine line of keeping people i...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld that the integration and interoperability was good for customers of the two companies There was a great deal of hoopla surrounding the announcement, DiDio said, but "it's not just lip service. It solidifies and reinfor...

"IBM is doing this because it's very invested in promoting open source," Laura Didio, senior analyst, Yankee Group, told LinuxInsider. "The open-source community will embrace IBM wholeheartedly because of it." "It's great that they're doing this.... It will spur development," ...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said the computer crashes that Gates and company experienced at CES are the same glitches that have befallen almost all top IT company presenters "I don't think it's going to have any long-lasting effect," she said. "They can blame it on...

That's important because a centerpiece of Microsoft's strategy going forward is to more tightly integrate all the components used on a desktop, especially the media software that does everything from help users download and play music to displaying video clips. The Media Player is the engine that Microsoft sees driving the computer-as-entertainment device revolution it hopes to be a big part of it, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said...