Tag: Microsoft
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Talk of Microsoft Layoffs Intensifying
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is considering significant layoffs across its various divisions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the company’s plans. But plans for the cutbacks have not yet been firmed up and Microsoft could end up finding alternative methods to control costs, the Journal reported on its… Read more
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Getting Out of the Microsoft Office
Categories: News and TrendsGetting Out of the Microsoft Office Google has spent the last several years playing on the periphery of one of Microsoft’s richest markets: Office applications. Now Google is launching a reseller program to accelerate the adoption of its Web-based Google apps. But Google isn’t the only one trying to challenge Microsoft’s dominance of everyday productivity… Read more
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Is Microsoft the Managed Services Market’s Biggest Enemy?
Over the years Microsoft’s commitment to channel partners has been pretty much unassailable, regardless of what you may think of the company’s products or its inclination to throw its weight around. But as the managed services market matures, you have to wonder how long the world’s largest software company plans to sit on the sidelines.… Read more
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Dell Acquires More Microsoft IT Consulting Muscle
Further shoring up its services organization on the heels of a reorganization around customer segments, Dell has announced that it has acquired the Microsoft IT consulting and solutions portions of IT solution provider Allin. The acquisition of those parts of the Pittsburgh-based Microsoft Gold Partner Allin for $12 million in stock brings 100 of the… Read more
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Apple vs. Microsoft: Who Has the Greater Tax?
OK, so it’s not really a tax in the sense that governments levy upon us. But many solution providers, companies and individuals are raising the revolutionary flag against the compulsory fees and maintenance costs associated with their respective computing platform. Microsoft recently began pumping a public relations campaign that users considering Macs with OS X… Read more
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Microsoft Adds ‘Apple Tax’ to PC Rhetoric
Microsoft must be feeling the heat from a growing acceptance of Apple Mac products, as a new campaign by the Redmond, Wash.-based company is pushing the concept of an "Apple tax" for non PC-users. The campaign, which Microsoft began last fall, claims that non-Microsoft users pay more for Apple hardware and have fewer peripheral and… Read more