Microsoft's to-do list
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Happy New Year, Microsoft. Now, get to work! That's the holiday message from research firm Directions on Microsoft to the world's largest software vendor.
The research firm, many of whose analysts are former Microsoft product managers, took the software vendor to task with a list of the top ten challenges the company needs to meet in 2006.
Job No. 1: Get Vista into the boardroom. Directions on Microsoft said that while Vista's cool graphical effects might impress consumers, they could turn off more IT admins than they attract. Meanwhile, sales of software assurance licenses, which are prepaid upgrade agreements, were disappointing.