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Retail CRM: Does Data Create A Duty?
Pity the poor retail CIO who is a CRM advocate. In acts of backstabbing betrayals worthy of the ancient Roman coliseum, our hero finds himself having to deal with a host of villains: Overzealous software sales reps, who conveniently forget to mention the money and person-hours the retailer will have to spend to make the…
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Microsoft Media Center OS Available to White Box Vendors
Nvidia Corp., ATI Technologies Inc., and others are expected to benefit from a new Microsoft Corp. program to provide its Windows Media Center software to system builders. Previously, Microsoft had restricted sales of its Windows XP Media Center Edition to PC OEMs like Hewlett-Packard Corp. Now, a new version of the software due this fall…
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Microsoft: Expect 1 Billion Windows PCs by 2010
TORONTO—There are 600 million Windows PCs today, according to Microsoft. By 2010, there will be more than 1 billion of them, one company official said. Will Poole, the head of Microsoft’s Windows client business, made these bold predictions here at the annual Microsoft worldwide partner conference in his keynote Monday morning. Poole said Microsoft expects…
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Microsoft Preps ‘Windows Marketplace’
TORONTO — Microsoft is readying a new Web site it’s calling “Windows Marketplace” via which it plans to provide customers with drivers, applications and services from both Microsoft and its partners. Company officials offered a bit of information on the forthcoming service during the Sunday morning keynote at Microsoft’s annual worldwide partner conference here. Kevin…
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Microsoft’s Burgum Takes Partner Heat
TORONTO — Microsoft’s channel partners here grilled Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) chieftain Doug Burgum more pointedly than did lawyers in the Oracle/PeopleSoft antitrust trial. Burgum kicked off the opening day of Microsoft’s annual worldwide partner conference with an open, hour-and-a-half question and answer session. And questioners were not shy about expressing their concerns about Microsoft’s…
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Microsoft to Sink $850 Million into SMB Division
TORONTO — Microsoft plans to invest $850 million over the next year in sales, marketing and research and development programs dedicated to beefing up its Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) division. And as part of the renewed MBS focus, Microsoft is considering creating an MBS Global Services plan, via which the division will offer more consulting…
