Roger Kay Quotations

Sixty-four bit is sellable as bigger, faster, but in terms of what it does for you, there is very little at the moment.

Centrino was $300 million, so I would think between $100 million to $300 million will go into this.

Battery life is very high on the list of customers' requirements. The immediate reaction is, 'What took so long?

China wants to be regarded as a mature player in the world stage, and to do so it has to respect intellectual property law.

Fun' sounds like crypto for consumer to me.

I think the issue now is that growth may have stalled, and a campaign like this may be designed to reinvigorate it.

Mark is clearly a numbers guy. Right now he's playing by the numbers, and that's fine. But there may come a point when the company may want to start inserting some more vision.

Windows itself has just grown into an enormous hairball over time.

There is always an issue for a product you currently have when you expose the market to a future product. When commercial customers become aware that there might be something better down the road, they might delay buying now, particularly if they have some flexibility.

This one is going to be successful, I think. I believe all the PC makers will adopt this because it's sort of a no-brainer.

This new line is targeted at segments that have been underserved before - in particular the small business.

Competitors have beefed up their offerings and reset pricing. These other guys have finally gotten their act together.

Essentially, it allows an administrator to control a number of Macs in the field.

The momentum right now is favoring AMD. That seems to have been the case for six months in terms of people being aware of it, but more like 18 months in terms of AMD having an impact on the market.

This is not an easy thing to sort through.

This is part and parcel of an effort on Microsoft's part to make the launch of Vista really interesting.

They have a huge cash flow that finances a whole city of people, and yet where you can grow from there is actually fairly limited. Microsoft's stock price isn't going anywhere, and in that environment, politics that were background noise rise to the foreground.

It's not as neat and clean as it might sound.

The bad news is that it's hard to get to them, ... The good news is that they're not overexploited because they're hard to get to.

Notebooks are roaring and taking over from desktops at a pretty fair clip.

These types of enterprise services are typically available only to large organizations. By offering this portfolio to its mid-market customers, Gateway is providing them with a class of services not normally within their reach. Working through partners, Gateway is able to deliver services tailored appropriately for its customer set.

The faster the obsolescence, the better the deals on existing stuff.

If I were inside Dell, I would be using Apple as the benchmark. Apple has totally wowed the computer world. They are the company to beat.

Intel is in a position to tip the balance on this one, and in fact seems likely to do so,

This is a company with real profits and a real brand recognition. It's also a new thing for Dell since they haven't bought a company and maintained it as a separate subsidiary before that I know of.

The company needs to get beyond where (Inouye) has taken it. Gateway needs a visionary. He's an operations guy.