Rob Enderle

You run into the most interesting things as an emerging-technology analyst. This week, it was a set of technologies from a company called MyOrigo Ltd. out of Finland. MyOrigo demonstrated the first smart phone Ive seen that could obsolete both the new Motorola MP x200 and PalmOne Incs new Treo 600. Just out of prototype […]

Disclaimer: IBM, HP, and Microsoft are all current clients of mine. In what has to be a section out of “News of the Weird” Sun and Microsoft today announced they had settled and would cooperate going forward. What is particularly amazing is that some Sun products will now begin to run Windows platform offerings. The […]

In the interest of full disclosure, Microsoft is currently a client of mine. Microsoft this week announced Windows CE 5.0, giving us a stronger sense of where Microsoft is driving that platform. Windows CE is the core platform that lies underneath the Windows Mobile products, which include PDAs and cell phones. It was called CE.NET […]

As I sit here in an American Eagle commuter jet, flying from San Jose to Los Angeles and trying to write this column, one thing occurs to me: This Ferrari-branded notebook sure looks better when it isnt solidly stuck in my stomach. The second thing that occurs to me is, Ill probably never regain the […]

Around the beginning of the last decade, Intel had the most efficient processor and was trying to argue that competing designs—which had faster clock speeds but did less actual work—were in fact inferior parts. They tried to get the industry to abandon MHz as a measure of performance and failed. At the end of the […]

With challenging litigation in several states, an ongoing and strengthening consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department, the ongoing attacks on Microsoft products and customers by virus writers, and the recent ruling by the European Union, the company has never been under greater threat. In fact, I cant remember any company—technology or otherwise, with the […]

Sony is the closest thing the Windows world has to an Apple Computer. It is also the company that should be the natural winner when it comes to the upcoming convergence in the consumer electronics space. Unfortunately, Sony has had execution issues that have made me doubt it will ever step up to its potential. […]

Disclosure: HP and Microsoft are currently clients of mine, and Toshiba and Apple have been clients in the past. There is a growing belief that by the end of 2006 all laptops will have digitizers and the name, “Tablet Computer” may only apply to the slate designs. But we arent there yet and, currently, very […]

Editors Note: There are two sides to every story, including the battle over Linux. To help crystallize the issues, we asked two of our columnists to take extreme positions to help clarify the upcoming court battles. Rob Enderles pro-SCO commentary follows. Dont miss the other side, as Linux Topic Center editor Steven Vaughan-Nichols takes the […]

Disclaimer: While not currently a client, I have consulted for Itronix in the past. Typically when we talk about extreme laptops we use “extreme” to mean high performance—resulting in laptops of eight pounds or more. However, ruggedized, or hardened laptops are another class of extreme machine. On Monday, laptop maker Itronix Corp. announced that the […]

Jim Allchin, Microsoft group vice president of platforms, in the manner of casual dinner conversation heard around the world, bypassed the companys normal protocol for product announcements on Thursday and revealed that there will be a new “Kit” from Microsoft, currently code-named Windows XP “Reloaded.” Officials at Microsoft are now scrambling to understand what the […]

As I write this column from the Intel Developers Conference, I am connected wirelessly, making it easy to forget that most still have yet to experience what it is like to be connected to the network almost every place you go without the use of the modem. At IDF, Intel showed not only the technical […]