It will force other vendor to rethink their licensing strategies and over time will cause them to make changes to stay competitive with Microsoft.

They will also spend some time talking about the social issues.

In the beginning, the only benefit it really had was the right to upgrade. But since [Microsoft] has added so many new benefits over the years, many more people are looking at it now.

Microsoft is making Windows Enterprise an entitlement of Software Assurance, and before you could buy it separately. This affects a significant number of [Gartner] clients that have presence across the globe, multinational companies.

There is a firestorm igniting that will be in full force by election time.

I think the Air Force will be there like we were for the no-fly zone for a long time.