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However, Microsoft wants to make those decisions on its own terms, Gartner analyst David Smith said "If all the penalties went into effect today, Microsoft's market position and its competitive position wouldn't change all that much," Smith said....

Gartner analyst David Smith told LinuxInsider that a few years ago, it seemed that Internet Explorer could not be toppled. However, times change "There's definitely more interest in alternatives to IE," he said. "You can attribute that to the security problems that keep coming...

Gartner analyst David Smith told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft has been able to squeeze growth on the PC side, but that run is likely coming to an end and the company will have to pay more attention to customers as well as shareholders to remain dominant "Microsoft is fa...

"Every once and awhile you see an interesting browser pop up and get a tiny bit of interest, but there's a lot of inertia in the market," Gartner analyst David Smith told LinuxInsider. Basically, he noted, users tend to stick to conventional browser choices rather than stray ...

Gartner vice president David Smith told TechNewsWorld that the Microsoft delay on SP2 was caused by a recurring issue at the company but is still "very minor." "They continue to be things that get missed a lot," Smith said of the delay. "It doesn't help." ...

"Certainly, they could pay the fine from petty cash," Gartner analyst David Smith told the E-Commerce Times. "But the larger issues, the possibly damaging ones, have to do with how [Microsoft] does business in Europe going forward." Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-...

Gartner analyst David Smith told the E-Commerce Times that even the harshest penalties from the EU will not put much of a dent in Microsoft's market position in Europe or around the world "They've already accounted for the fine in their budgets and have plenty of cash to offse...

Although specific pricing for the machines was not disclosed -- and likelywill vary by country -- Gartner analyst David Smith told the E-CommerceTimes that HP probably can shave the price substantially by loadingLinux That, in turn, will enable HP to get a foothold in emerging...

Melissa's designer, David Smith, was eventually sentenced to 20 months in prison after being charged with interruption of public communications, conspiracy to interrupt public communications, theft of computer services and damage or wrongful access to computer services ...

Gartner vice president David Smith said moving to Linux desktops does make sense for some enterprises, but only in a "very narrow, limited range of situations," such as environments where few applications are used and those applications perform largely repetitive tasks. Data-entry or bank-teller automation platforms were examples cited by Gartner as appropriate stages for desktop Linux.

Because of law enforcement's limited success in apprehending and prosecuting major virus writers -- last year's 20-month prison sentence for Melissa writer David Smith, 34, was among the most prominent achievements -- security experts doubt legal recourse will be a hindrance to many would-be attackers...

Gartner vice president David Smith told the E-Commerce Times that the Asian governments are responding to calls from smaller software companies in their countries that are finding it difficult to compete with Windows. "A patchwork approach probably won't work because one of t...

Gartner vice president David Smith said overseas governmental adoption of Linux and other open-source programs may herald a major shift in the IT landscape, since companies that do business with those agencies may follow suit. "Open source is sometimes seen as a way to boost ...

Agencies in China, Japan, Singapore, Australia and elsewhere are pushing open-source options in order to "spark their local IT industries and thus avoid having to export increasing amounts of their gross domestic product to U.S.-based companies," said Gartner vice president David Smith...

As David Smith, vice president at Gartner, told the E-Commerce Times, "Therewill always be early adopters of a new browser, those on the fringe, techieswho are looking for something a little bit better and a little bit different." Users of these browsers appreciate the kinds o...

Windows NT 4.0, still a widely used platform in many enterprises, will reach its end-of-life at the close of 2003, meaning no more support will be forthcoming from Redmond. Companies that decide to upgrade will find that Win2003 is their only choice. "There's really no other way to go, save moving to another platform," Gartner vice president David Smith told the E-Commerce Times. "If you want to continue to use Windows, you won't really have any other choice after 4.0 is no longer supported."

However, Gartner research analyst David Smith told the E-Commerce Times that Sun's victories so far in the legal battle likely will not have any major impact on the marketplace, and that Microsoft will not suffer greatly even if forced to comply with the order in full. "Micro...

A broad range of free PUK software is available on the Internet, such as Panicware's Pop-Up Stopper, Ecom Software's PopUpBuster and Sureshot's Stop-the-Pop. "It's increased in popularity over the last couple of years as pop-up ads have increased," Gartner vice president David Smith told the E-Commerce Times...

Gartner analyst David Smith told the E-Commerce Times that .NET and Web services in general have suffered from confusion and failed attempts to broadly define the initiative. "Microsoft is improving in how it delivers the message, but it's got a long way to go," Smith said. H...

"We're in a new Internet economic situation today where the rules of 1998are no longer valid," David Smith, vice president of Internet strategies for the Gartner Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "The year of free lunch on the Internet is coming to aclose and Microsoft may be out in front of the trend here."