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HP’s Confounding New Strategy: Partners Respond
Partners are holding their breath following HP’s (NYSE:HPQ) multiple bombshells last week — buying software vendor Autonomy for $10 billion, looking to sell off its PC business and abandoning webOS and dumping its Touchpad tablet and smartphones. While most channel experts expect the ripple effects to travel far with these moves by HP, it is…
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HP to Cut PC, webOS Businesses, Acquire Autonomy
Aug. 18, 2011 may well turn out to be a pivotal day in the 72-year history of Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest IT provider. The day boiled down to simple subtraction and addition and not just in reference to the 2011 third-quarter financial report it delivered, which was the most dire one in recent years.…
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Microsoft’s Office 365 Experiences Outages: Reports
Microsoft’s Office 365 seems to be experiencing some outages. "We apologize for the inconvenience that the Office 365 outage has caused today. We re sic are working on resolving the issue," read an Aug. 17 tweet posted at 3:30 EST on Microsoft’s cloud-services Twitter account. Around 20 minutes later, Microsoft’s official Office 365 Twitter account…
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Dell: Only Real iPad Competition Comes From Android, Windows 8
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 and Google’s Android OS will emerge as the only real alternatives to Apple’s dominant iPad in the tablet market, according to Dell CEO Michael Dell. Speaking to analysts and journalists Aug. 16 in a conference call to announce the company’s second-quarter financial numbers, Dell said that Google’s Android platform will benefit…
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HP Could Acquire Autonomy for $10B, Spin Off PC Business
When Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors selected former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker as its new leader to replace Mark Hurd in September 2010, they knew exactly what they were doing; they hand-picked a career software veteran to transform their longtime hardware maker into a software and services company for the 21st century. They have moved aggressively…