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Yankee Group Slams 'Linux Extremists'
Talkback The Yankee Group is betting on Microsoft's survival, but the truth is with Longhorn's release data being pushed futher and further away, and with the constant crashing, and insane licensing costs of an operating system that can't even compare on...
[April 11, 2005, 10:00]
Yankee Group Slams 'Linux Extremists'
News The Yankee Group has hit back at critics in the Linux community who have claimed that its surveys comparing Linux and Microsoft Windows are not impartial. Some of DiDio's critics have claimed that Yankee Group's surveys comparing the total cost of...
[April 7, 2005, 13:00]
Vista To Hit Firewall, Antispyware Markets
News Due out early next year, the next major release of Microsoft's flagship operating system promises not only to increase security for consumers, it will also dramatically affect the $3.6bn (£1.9bn) market for Windows security products, according to...
[May 8, 2006, 8:45]
Antivirus Tools Becoming Hackers' New Favourite
News Makers of antivirus products have not yet been forced to acknowledge and fix potential problems in their code, analysts with Yankee Group wrote in a research paper published on Monday. Symantec, F-Secure and CheckPoint are among the vendors that...
[June 21, 2005, 9:30]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
News In the email, Ballmer attempts to reinforce Microsoft's claim to lower TCO with findings from a Yankee Group from April 2004, entitled "Linux, UNIX and Windows TCO Comparison". But according to Novell, the Yankee Group study also found that the...
[October 28, 2004, 15:54]
Linux Sees Big Potential In Small Businesses
News The report, released on Monday by The Yankee Group, says Linux has minimal presence among business with 500 employees or fewer, with not even 1 percent of such companies currently using Linux on desktop PCs.
[September 21, 2004, 11:05]
Linux Servers Praised For Security
News A Yankee Group survey released last week found a similar, but less significant, difference between Linux and Windows server security. Yankee Group's survey asked IT executives from over 500 companies to evaluate the security of Linux and Windows on...
[April 12, 2005, 12:50]
Linux Can Cost More - Study
News Migrating to open-source software may cost some companies more than simply upgrading their Unix or Windows systems, according to a study that research company The Yankee Group released on Monday. Based on a survey of 1,000 information technology...
[April 6, 2004, 10:35]
Windows PatchGuard 'hindering Security'
News However, Yankee Group analyst Jaquith believes that step is getting closer, especially if Microsoft were to give its own security products a way to bypass PatchGuard. PatchGuard will make it harder for third parties, particularly host intrusion...
[August 11, 2006, 8:50]
Office XP Service Pack Released
News Delivering the next version on time will be very important," said Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio. Microsoft could release Windows XP Service Pack 1 as early as 28 August. Microsoft on Wednesday released its second collection of bug fixes, or...
[August 21, 2002, 11:27]
Analysts Claim Improved Reliability For Linux Servers
News Windows Server 2003's decreased reliability is attributable to a series of security alerts that Microsoft issued in the summer and fall timeframe which caused network administrators to take their Windows Server 2003 machines offline for...
[April 16, 2008, 15:54]
Microsoft: .Net Alive And Well
News Laura DiDio, an analyst for research firm Yankee Group, said the software maker has a genuine zeal for standards such as extensible markup language (XML). While .Net was initially understood as a strategy for delivering software functionality as a...
[November 20, 2003, 9:30]
Rocky Road Ahead For IPv6
News Besides Microsoft's call for support, research house The Yankee Group predicts that by the fourth quarter of 2002, Japan will become the first country to deploy IPv6 in production environments. At WinHEC in 2002, Microsoft almost begged its...
[April 24, 2002, 11:03]
More Firms Make Linux Move
News In a report on total cost of ownership for the Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows operating systems, research company The Yankee Group found that only 4 percent of businesses planned to migrate Unix servers to Linux within the next two years.
[August 31, 2004, 9:15]
MPEG-4 On Road To Rights Management
News A technical standard for digital rights management "had been the component missing from any MPEG-4 content or individual players", said Ryan Jones, an analyst for The Yankee Group. The most formidable player, Microsoft, has pushed adoption of its...
[January 29, 2003, 7:46]
Battle Continues Over True Cost Of Linux
News Laura DiDio, an analyst at the Yankee Group who carried out the survey, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that it is a myth that the total cost of ownership (TCO) for Linux is lower than that for Windows. The majority of enterprises deploying Microsoft...
[April 7, 2005, 13:00]
Longhorn: If They Build It, Will Anyone Come?
News In a soon-to-be-published Yankee Group survey, Microsoft was given an average rating of 7.6 out of 10, up from ratings of well below five a year ago. One thing that has changed, said Yankee Group's DiDio, is that businesses are significantly...
[April 1, 2005, 18:10]
Microsoft Puts PCs Into Heart Of Home Entertainment
News But Yankee Group analyst Ryan Jones said November is too late. Then again, taking on the cost of the decoder fee would be a big expense given that 42 percent of PCs with Internet access have DVD drives, according to Yankee Group.
[July 16, 2002, 8:19]
AOL Beefs Up Winamp
News I think AOL does want to be in the top three, absolutely," said Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman. And with its ability to stream Microsoft's Windows Media formats and its intention to add RealNetworks formats, Winamp could put AOL Time Warner in a...
[August 12, 2002, 10:24]
US Telecoms Giant Looks At Throwing Windows Out
News Researchers at The Yankee Group last month published a report predicting that small businesses will drive adoption of Linux on desktops. Most likely, AT&T will stick with Windows, because Microsoft is addressing many of problems associated with its...
[October 6, 2004, 9:05]
