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I really was anticipating a battle royal between Microsoft and Apple and thought both companies would come to the mat with their best stuff. It felt like Apple was so focused on maintaining high margins last quarter that it gave up a huge chance to grow share, and its stealth launch of a couple of PCs and a multitouch mouse just seemed lame next to the massive rollout of Windows boxes. ...

The idea of consolidating all a person's online communications makes sense, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes were and are both communications consolidation platforms; Raindrop and Google Wave simply go further faster," he explained.

Some of the changes will be an increased demand for remote management capabilities and more robust, redundant systems that are offered at a low price, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "These regions have a vastly higher requirement for high-efficiency hardware and solutions because they lack reliable power," he said.

The restructuring of SCO marks the ending of an era, according toRob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group "McBride drove SCO down an aggressive litigation path but lacked thebackground in the legalities," Enderle told LinuxInsider....

I'm getting ready to travel to New York for the Windows 7 launch and what may be my last plane trip ever if this post is correct. So I figured it was time to think about Windows ...

It's not uncommon for companies to allow their acquisitions to run their own infrastructures, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Danger's platform was unique, and the migration would have to be done without disrupting the current user base...

Does this mean that if a B&N-branded e-reader is coming -- and if it offers wireless downloads -- then Barnes & Noble will go with AT&T, whose 3G service is notoriously spotty, rather than Verizon Wireless, which has a larger network? Perhaps the bookstore is eying the international market, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

The age of the computer started in the 1950s, and one of the first things that happened to a then relatively tiny IBM was it got nailed by the Department of Justice. The result was competition and the modern age of computing. That was the age of the mainframe, and that age is long gone, or so you would think. However, last week, the DoJ opened another, very similar, investigation of IBM. It was -- you'd never guess -- on the mainframe. This technology still accounts for an impressive amount of IBM's revenue, and it has really been the only player in the space for some time. What makes this interesting is that there is another vertically integrated company that regularly engages in the same kind of behavior, and that is Apple. ...

Beauty may not be enough, however, contended Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This is certainly a nice piece of personal jewelry, but in a market class that's being defined at under $400, a product at this price is going to be very difficult to sell," he told TechNewsWorld...

Both the console and PC game markets are suffering at the moment, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Hardcore gaming is declining in general, he said, in much the same way that the traditional TV market is fragmenting "The problem for both gaming segment...

By not issuing an explicit ruling, the EC will have left the door open for future action against Microsoft. "Once a government body like this gets it teeth into something, it's like a dog with a bone, and it won't let go unless something else distracts it," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "I expect the European Commission will be making Microsoft's life miserable for several more years just because they can."

WinMo 6.5's improvements are slight because it is really designed as a place holder for Windows Mobile 7, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group and a Windows Mobile smartphone user himself. "It's better than Windows Mobile 6.1, but it's a point release, which means minor, largely cosmetic improvements," he told TechNewsWorld. "Windows Mobile 7 will be a full release and move the bar further."

Last week, I was at the first GPU developer's conference put on by Nvidia, along with around 1,500 people trying to change the future of computing. What was both troubling and amazing was the number of times people were telling me stories about things people had said were impossible that they were now doing as a matter of course all because of this change. ...

Fermi will change the face of computing, contends Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Over the years, GPUs have been used more often to run applications that require massive amounts of parallel processing and have been redesigned and retuned for this, he told TechNewsWorld.

Google Wave's multiple functionality is very similar to that of Lotus Notes. "Wave's very capable and imagines a future where people collaborate much more often than they do today," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "But, like Lotus Notes was, it will be a really hard product to sell."

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to watch Andy Grove talk about saving the U.S., and I was once again taken with what made him a truly great CEO. It isn't that he is articulate or simply on message -- it's that he conveys a combination of intelligence and passion rarely found in any current leaders. It is also fascinating to see he can still make ex-Intel executives sweat at an Intel alumni reunion, even though many of them now run their own companies. ...

"Sidewiki appears to give Google ownership of comments, but it also potentially improves the usefulness of those comments," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "That may be a strong enough offsetting benefit for the loss of control by Web page owners."

Larrabee's success is open to question. "Intel has promised great graphics repeatedly since the 1990s, so I'm a little jaded here," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. However, it's still too early to tell whether the architecture will garner support from the gaming or professional graphics sectors, or the Microsoft, Apple or Linux communities, he said.

Thanks to its Surface research, Microsoft has done the software leg work required to bring the Courier to market this year if it wanted to, according to Enderle Group president and principal analyst Rob Enderle. The technological hurdle would lie with multi-touch screen developers and other hardware companies.

With Moblin, meanwhile, "people are more willing to take Intel's Atom and do something interesting with it," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider "Intel will do lots of heavy lifting to make sure Moblin and the hardware work to...