Rob Enderle

Major worldwide economic problems often speed up transitions as models that are failing are forced to fail more quickly, and emerging models that have significant economic advantages (they’re cheaper) get a substantial boost. We are entering such a time. Although a recent eWeek Poll is indicating movement towards Vista with new hardware, it also identified […]

I’ve been reading some of the coverage of the Vista Capable Lawsuit. Litigation often reveals correspondence between parties that showcases how folks were actually thinking. In the Windows Vista correspondence you see the corporate typical disagreement between those who made the policies, sometimes without executive support (as in the case with the Intel deal that […]

I’ve been taking some long hard looks at the next generation laptops from Apple, Lenovo, and Toshiba. The Toshiba R500 was an amazing product, very light, very portable but also prohibitively expensive. The Apple Air was more attractively priced but came with some severe limitations. And the latest, the ThinkPad X300 from Lenovo, appeared to […]

It has been awhile since I’ve seen so much anticipation for a new operating system from anyone. In the Windows space Windows 95 was the product that set the bar. And there is a lot of chatter about folks wanting to wait for Windows 7 right now, reminiscent of the ramp to Windows 95. Let’s […]

I’ve been watching Product Red with some fascination of late and this week they picked up Microsoft and Dell. Product Red, you may have heard, is a charity launched by U2 superstar Bono and philanthropist Bobby Shriver. It’s a brand name that is licensed to participating companies; when these companies sell a product that’s branded […]

Part of the problem with CES is there is so much going on that figuring out what the big messages are just isn’t very easy. With announcement coming on top of announcement – and a huge focus on just surviving the week – it is incredibly difficult to see a major portion of the trees, […]

This is a holiday week for most of you so I want to keep it light and fun. Let’s talk about the products that defined 2007. I’ll start with the offering that took CES last year, to the surprise of everyone there: The Apple iPhone I was at CES last year and when Apple announced […]

I was at the Cisco analyst event this week and, if you’ve never been to one of these things, they’re kind of a love fest between a vendor and the analysts that cover them. The bigger the vendor the more analysts, and this one was done better than many I have attended. However, it struck […]

As we wrap up 2007 there have been some potentially wide ranging events, and what should be some lasting lessons. For the next several weeks I’ll explore these two or three at a time, and for this week I’d like to pick some of the biggest. Google is trending to be a company with power […]

After years of suggesting the big PC companies learn critical skills from Apple, it is finally happening. Both HP and Dell have been bringing on board ex-Apple employees and implementing policies that set Apple as the benchmark (rather than each other) and the end result will be a better experience from both firms. But, what […]