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Microsoft'Vista may be the last big operating system developed by the Microsoft,according to Goldman Sachs,who  also says "potentially mark the end of an era," with "changing technology and business models:
Friar says that “ahead of the second-quarter earnings report investor nervousness remains high, particularly given uncertainty regarding spending plans in FY 2008 and recent negative management comments on Vista.”.
Friar's comments sound a more cautious stance than we have heard from Goldman on Microsoft in quite some time. Recent product launches, she says “potentially mark the end of an era,” with “changing technology and business models in areas such as software-as-a-service, virtualization and open source” combining to “diminish Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop, which in turn significantly depletes the company's cash cow. Vista may be the last big operating system developed by the company.”

VoIP is too complicated for mass markets, says Forrester Research
In a survey of VoIP users, a Forrester Research analyst has found the low-cost calling technology to be too complicated to appeal to mass-market users. Forrester's Zayera Khan found voice-over-IP navigation systems generally to be a problem with users who are bewildered by a plethora of icons, buttons, rollovers, and navigation features. Khan cited the lack of clear keyword search capability as another problem. Khan said "highly educated males hungry for the latest technology" was the group most comfortable with VoIP. But when they began using market pace setters like Skype and Windows Live Messenger, only 4% continued to use those services.

Sohu Threatens to Sue Google
Sohu.com Inc. Tuesday threatened to sue Google Inc. for violating its intellectual property rights, and renewed a demand for the company to stop downloads of a Chinese software tool based, in part, on one of its own databases.

Posted at 03:23PM Apr 10, 2007 by barkodar in General  |  Comments[1]