Tag: Microsoft

  • Microsoft Shuffles Channel Executives

    Carolyn April

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    Less than a week before kicking off its annual Worldwide Partner Conference along with a new fiscal year, Microsoft is shuffling the executive deck in its channel organization. Most notable of the changes involves Robert Deshaies, who will be leaving his role as vice president of U.S. Partner Business Development and Sales, according to a… Read more

  • Google Aims Directly at Microsoft with New PC Platform

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Google Inc is planning a direct attack on Microsoft Corp’s core business by taking on the software giant’s globally dominant Windows operating system for personal computers. Google, which already offers a suite of e-mail, Web and other software products that compete with Microsoft, said on Tuesday it would launch a new operating system… Read more

  • Seven Things Partners Want to Hear About at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

    Seven Things Partners Want to Hear About at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

    Carolyn April

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    Seven Things Partners Want to Hear About at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Microsoft partners are clamoring for clarity around the vendor’s software-as-a-service play. Last year’s excitement at the introduction of Business Productivity Online Suite, in particular, has been dampened by widespread dissatisfaction with the partner business model. Partners complain that margins on BPOS resale… Read more

  • Google CEO Says Worst of Economic Crisis Over

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – A U.S. recovery is likely to begin this autumn, the worst of the crisis has passed and it is "reasonable to be optimistic for 2010," internet search giant Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday. Speaking at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in southern France, Schmidt said U.S. jobless claims indicated "the… Read more

  • Best Free Antiviruss Apps

    Best Free Antiviruss Apps

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Best Free Antiviruss Apps Best Free Antivirus Apps No Title First, a disclaimer. Free and best don’t always go hand-in-hand – especially when it comes to antivirus software. Most of the software packages on this list are designed as entry-level protection. They’re designed to entice users into buying the advance protections and manageability that comes… Read more

  • Microsoft to Cut Prices on Windows 7 Home Edition

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is to sell the standard home-user version of its new Windows 7 operating system for 8 percent less than the comparable version of its Vista system, as the global downturn hits spending on technology. The world’s largest software company, whose recent ads champion low-priced PCs against more expensive Apple Inc… Read more