But if customers feel better about Microsoft's increased role, its support partners are not all so optimistic.
And I remain optimistic, but not naively so, that this is going to be hard work and each side is going to have to look inward to determine what is in their long-term interests, and not just what are in their short-term tactical interests, which tends to perpetuate a conflict as opposed to solving it.
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The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment (the bull-bear spread) is also unusually high at 31.5%, but not so high as to create caution that individual investors are too optimistic.
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But the underlying message has not changed: the recovery is still fragile, and so is the optimistic mood we have seen in global financial markets since the start of 2012.
So to some observers, it may not be the time to get too optimistic.
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It is not a given they will get their (200 or so) new users, but I would be optimistic that they will exceed that number.
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Even so, General Motors' interim CEO Ed Whitacre Jr. said on Wednesday that he was not optimistic about Saab's survival and that GM would begin closing factories later in the week.
Even on the optimistic view, this is presumably not going to be eurobonds, which the German Chancellor has trashed so often, and so recently.
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