:: Rob Enderle ::

Since the beginning of the personal computer market, one argument was defined by an initial disagreement between Apple and Microsoft about whether PC hardware and software needed to be closely coupled. Microsoft initially appeared to win this disagreement. (A copy of the letter to Apple’s CEO from Bill Gates suggesting Apple license can be found […]

In my last post, I wrote of Google’s apparent intention to put Microsoft out of business. One of the folks posting on the piece asked a question about why Linux isn’t more frequently used in the home. Because this actually speaks to why Vista isn’t doing better and what it would take to create a real competitor for […]

In a way, this is almost like déjà vu for me, as in the early days of the computer business the talk of one vendor trying to kill the other was what kept you fired up, particularly when it was you the other vendor was trying to kill. In the Google-Microsoft battle, clearly the rhetoric […]

I spent the first two days of this week at a Microsoft event covering virtualization and management tools. This is a group that, if nothing else, has its act together, based on the customers I interviewed at the event. These customers outlined the reason they prefer Microsoft in one simple sentence: It makes what is […]

By most measures, Steve Jobs is an incredible success. However, his goal was to make the computer for the masses and at 6 percent market share, up from below 3 percent at the beginning of the decade, he’ll retire before the company hits 20 percent. Around 70 percent of the existing market is corporate purchases, where he has almost […]