111 Quotes by Joe Wilcox

The EU wants licensed code to be available for use in open-source and free software, a request Microsoft has resisted. I would be shocked if that position has significantly changed.

Shortages like this are one of the effects of Apple keeping announcements quiet. Many companies will begin moving product through the channel before an announcement. Sometimes you'll even see Microsoft software on store shelves before it's announced.

Mobile browsing will take off in the U.S. when the data rates come down. When we hit a certain threshold, the scales will tip and people will rush to buy.

My expectation is that Microsoft's entrance into the security product market will drive out many of the smaller vendors within 24 months.

My concern is that Microsoft has introduced too much complexity, making more difficult the arduous purchase decision process. Microsoft is right to get information out earlier, because evaluating an Office purchase will be much harder for businesses this release cycle compared to Office 2003 or XP.

Nobody's infrastructure is the same, so it's unrealistic that you could do a vanilla survey that fits everybody.

I wouldn't call it anti-competitive in the sense that Microsoft has made it very easy to change providers. On the other hand, Microsoft could have made it easier still... I don't see why it didn't avoid making problems for itself by making it drop dead easy to find another provider.

I'd be shocked if we saw a scenario where a bunch of people went out, bought Macs, and only ran Windows on them.

But we'll have to wait and see how that actually works.