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"There are clearly specific elements to the original ruling that they find impossible to agree to," Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said. Speculation has been that the removal of Media Player from Windows is one of those sticking points, particularly since Microsoft is hard at work on a next-generation version of the platform that more tightly integrates that software...

Whether one operating system is inherently more secure than another can be a misleading measure to users, according to Laura DiDio, senior analyst for the Yankee Group in Boston. "Software, no matter how secure you make it, is only going to be as secure or good as the people who are configuring it, managing it and deploying it," she said...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld that regardless of the number of pages or documents on which a search engine is drawing, the most important thing will be features "It's what people can see and use that's going to have cachet, not five or eight billio...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said users of such legacy programs are most likely to be impacted by financial concerns "If they've waited to the bitter end of free support and beyond, they probably have good reasons for not upgrading before now," DiDio said....

Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said it's important for IBM to gain an ally like Sybase because of the competition it will face in the entry-level server market space it is targeting with its Open Power server line "IBM knows it can use Linux as a way to drive services revenu...

"Microsoft is outside that world where their customers can point to the savings on hardware from dual-core processors or virtualization and justify the added expense on the software side," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said In fact, Gartner said software fees could r...

"This is a sort of fill-in-the-blanks strategy," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said of Microsoft's deal with prominent PLM vendor Dassault Systemes. "Maybe they want to do more in France because of the EU Commission," she told TechNewsWorld New Customers...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld that despite its dominance in the late 1980s and early 1990s, customers are finding it harder and harder to support NetWare DiDio, who called version 5.0 of NetWare "clean," indicated that there are complaints regardin...

"Most of the Linux firms are pretty much no-name vendors once you get past Novell [SuSE] and Red Hat," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told LinuxInsider. "They need the blessing and partnership of a big name to give them credibility. It legitimizes JBoss in the minds of many organizations that haven't heard of them."

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio said while Microsoft certainly wantsa piece of the multi-billion dollar search engine market, it is now facingthe same kind of challenge it has posed to rivals for years "It's what you get used to," DiDio told TechNewsWorld, referring to...

Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said stopping software piracy is one area where private companies and law enforcement have developed strong partnerships That's because the interests of individual countries are aligned with those of the country, which exports far more software...

Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told LinuxInsider that this endorsement is a "big deal" for open source but also emphasized the need for thorough cost analysis "There isn't a black and white," Didio said. "There's not a right or wrong. When you get down to it, the operating s...

"That's almost -- but not quite -- a concession speech," Laura DiDio, a senior analyst with the Yankee Group in Boston said. "It's a concession that they're not going to do a great job dislodging Windows, especially on the desktop, here in North America." "Here in the U.S., yo...

Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said the fact that Microsoft is behind the Sender ID technology gives pause to some who might otherwise support a standard that many agree is at least as good as, if not better than, most alternatives currently in place "If there were another c...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld that Microsoft wasmaking a proactive move to address the issue, but was also signaling to itscustomers that it is not a hardware vendor and could not lower softwareprices along with the dip in hardware costs that comes with the efficiencyof multicore chips...

"It does serve a purpose for customers," YankeeGroup senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times "Certainly, Microsoft is trying to further its own interests, but at the same time it is helping users with this," she said....

Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said Microsoft has wrestled with how closely to tie together the two versions of its operating system and might have learned from the long lag between the upgrade of XP and the Windows Server 2003 release that customers want better integration ...

Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said the importance of Media Player 10 is emphasized by Microsoft's willingness to engage in a long, costly and potentially damaging court battle with European regulators "This is the centerpiece of an entire strategy to be the channel through ...

The requirement to strip Media Player hit especially close to the heart of Microsoft's longterm strategy, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times The media player is at the center of a strategy that positions Microsoft's products for both distribution and co...

Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told LinuxInsider: "Linux security is a good example of what happens when many people are working on a problem. It gets solved quickly." That means that while the open-source community might lack a central security point, it does tend to move e...