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  • Vista’s Failure to Launch

    You’ve got to hand it to Microsoft. They do get marketing. In what is turning out to be a spectacular example of spinning a negative into a positive, the software company’s missteps and ultimate failure to entice the market with Windows Vista has become a key selling point for the forthcoming Windows 7. Even Microsoft…

  • Microsoft Shuffles Channel Executives

    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…

  • Wyse VDA Accelerates Cloud Computing over Long Haul

    Thin client technology vendor Wyse Technology today is releasing new software designed to enable thin clients to access far-away data centers without the associated degradation in performance. The Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator is designed to make thin-client computing — using either thin client hardware or a repurposed PC — viable for private networks over the…

  • Google Aims Directly at Microsoft with New PC Platform

    (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…

  • Symantec Unveils Deduplication Strategy

    Symantec Corp. announced its deduplication strategy with plans to deliver on it over the next year as well as several updates and enhancements to its flagship backup and recovery solution NetBackup. With data volumes increasing daily, companies need a better way to balance backup storage costs with business needs for rapid and reliable data recovery.…

  • Corporate PC Refresh Cycle Coming Spring 2010

    Just when you thought PC sales would never return, there’s a glimmer of hope for a significant PC refresh cycle on the horizon—good news for resellers of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and maybe even Apple. Bernstein Research is now forecasting a return to PC unit growth next year—with growth of 11 percent in 2010, 13 percent in…

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