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• Is Microsoft Less Expensive Than Linux?

  - 2003-11-01

  Until recently, if you wanted to find someone who thought that a Windows-based program was cheaper than one based on Linux, you had to go all the way to Redmond. No more. Not since Microsoft paid Forrester Research's Giga Research to conduct a comparative study of the costs of developing...

  Tags: Giga Information Group Inc., Linux, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., SOFTWARE, UNIX

• Why Microsoft Created Licensing 6.0

  - 2002-01-15

  Reason Number One: It simplifies software licensing. At Microsoft, upgrades spawned a new lingo. Big licensing programs came with names like Select, Volume and Enterprise. And there were five upgrade options: Competitive Upgrades CUPs, Volume Upgrades VUPs, Product Upgrades PUPs, License Upgrade LUPs and Upgrade Advantage UA. Many...

  Tags: CIO, Giga Information Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., SOFTWARE

• Analyst Firm's Efforts to Help Clients Prompts Microsoft to Change Licensing Terms

  - 2001-10-15

  Business & High Tech Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 15, 2001 Giga Information Group's MS License Workshops Show Potential Path to 20 to 30 Percent Savings Research by Giga Information Group, Inc. (OTC BB: GIGX) on Microsoft's new 6.0 licensing program revealed many customers to be confused...

  Tags: Company, Giga Information Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., SOFTWARE, Strategy

• High-tech industry has made shifts since start of trial

  - 1999-10-29

  MICROSOFT By TED BRIDIS The Associated Press WASHINGTON --- In the year since the antitrust trial opened against Microsoft Corp., the nation's high-tech industry has made some of its most dramatic shifts since consumers began discovering the Internet in droves. The former...

  Tags: antitrust, Giga Information Group Inc., INTERNET, Microsoft Corp., precedent, SECURITY

• Windows 2000 to Put Applications Side-by-Side - Company Business and Marketing

  - 1999-07-19

  It's been a long time coming, but Microsoft Corp. may have the cure to relieve the painful irritation of Dynamic Link Library DLL conflicts. The company doesn't say the solution, known as Side-by-Side DLLs, is the panacea that developers may have been looking for, but it does claim the solution...

  Tags: Giga Information Group Inc., marketing, Microsoft Corp., SOFTWARE

• The other side: new features can bring unwanted problems

  - 1998-11-04

  Something long-delayed often can become more greatly anticipated. Originally expected to debut in 1997, the release of Service Pack 4 for Windows NT 4.0 missed its mark by nearly a year. While expectations were high for SP4, some IT managers and analysts are now expressing disappointment with a number of...

  Tags: Giga Information Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., security, SOFTWARE

• Windows 98 on Time, NT 5.0 Still a Mystery

  - 1998-03-18

  Herbold pointed to a time frame between April and June of this year for Windows 98 to reach final release. "The beta looks strong, and if it does slip, it won't slip more than 30 days," says Rob Enderle, senior analyst with Giga Information Group (Santa Clara, Calif.). "I've even...

  Tags: Giga Information Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., SOFTWARE

• Intel Aims PC Management at the Mobile Market for Improved TCO

  - 1998-03-18

  In classic Microsoft style, the release of Windows 97 was delayed so long that the company renamed the operating system Windows 98. But at the BancAmerica Robertson Stephens Technology '98 Conference in San Francisco last month, Robert Herbold, Microsoft's chief operating officer, maintained that Windows 98 will be launched on...

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