Michael Silver Business Quotations

With Microsoft, there's always a question of whether it's a home release or a business release. There's a feeling by some that because home and business share a lot of the same components, Microsoft just makes the market target bigger by talking about those common features. But that makes businesses feel uncertain, and there's some merit to that feeling.

Microsoft has had a tendency to group home and business together, because many of those customers will be using the same features anyway. So, whenever there's a new release, there tends to be uncertainty over whether it's for consumers or enterprises.

Microsoft could slip the business editions into 2007 without a big impact on what most companies would do, and that?s certainly possible. The Home editions were really the more important ones to get out this year. Once they miss Christmas, slipping again has fewer ramifications.

There would be cost and complexity, and the key for many business users, the reason they wouldn't migrate, is because it would just be too much effort for very little demonstrated need,

For business users, bringing on new equipment, much like changing operating systems, has to be because there's a demonstrated need.