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Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals

Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferralsHow can they blame ...... netbooks when they have 97% of the market?Is there an untold story?^o^Wait, I thought cheap was good. 'Lauren' congratulated herselffor not being able to afford a Mac, and went cheap, cheap, cheap. And now we find out...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft layoff, Apple Inc., client revenue skid, Windows 7 deferral, MSFT, deferral, netbook, Microsoft Corp., skid, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-23

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Intel's Otellini: Strong second half; recovery coming in 2010

Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit today and kicked off the conversation with some good economic news: "We found bottom," he said, and it was discovered earlier than anyone might have thought. "It's been a strong second half and it's not...

Tags: U.S., Patent, Recovery, Paul Otellini, Intel Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals

Microsoft's fourth quarter earnings were better than expectations excluding items, but the software giant's client Windows revenue skidded 29 percent compared to a year ago. For the three months ended June 30, Microsoft's client revenue was $3.1 billion, down from $4.36 billion a year ago. That slide in Windows revenue...

Tags: Revenue, PC, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Client Revenue, Operational Accounting, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-23

The PC replacement cycle: Will Windows 7 light the fuse?

How long can enterprises milk their existing PCs without having to upgrade? The answer for now is: Quite awhile, perhaps forever. But technology chieftains are betting (praying?) that there's a big PC upgrade cycle looming and the Windows 7 Oct. 22 launch will be the catalyst.  The...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Microsoft Windows XP, Netbook, PC Shipment, Tech Executive, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Dell is going shopping: Pondering the data center and services targets

Dell CEO Michael Dell said the company is likely to spend some of its $10 billion in cash on an acquisition that would give it more of a foothold in the data center or expand its services.  The one bright spot of Dell's first quarter was the...

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Market Capitalization, Data Center, Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Grandi Salumifici Italiani Improves Purchasing Management With Business Intelligence Solution

Grandi Salumifici Italiani GSI wanted to allow the purchasing department to assess its performance and contribution to the overall business and improve analysis of suppliers, purchase prices, and deferral of payment, to determine the most appropriate suppliers. The challenge was to implement a multidimensional system that is easy to browse...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Oracle Corp., Supplier, Analysis, Grandi Salumifici Italiani, Channel Management, Marketing

Case studies 2009-03-01

School District Speeds Deployment, Boosts Application Access With Virtualization

IT staff at Fairfax County Public Schools FCPS, a large district with 90,000 computers, had to manage and update many separate disk images. This complexity led to the deferral of most application deployment until hardware upgrades were done, which reduced application availability to teachers. At times, applications were deployed singly,...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Information Technology, School District, Application Deployment, Teacher, Upgrades, Quality, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware Upgrade, Storage Management, Strategy, Business Operations, Hardware, Storage, Management

Case studies 2009-03-01

SAP's forced march may be good news

At SAP TechEd Berlin, Leo Apotheker, co-CEO reinforced the message that the enhancement packages will significantly reduce the amount of testing that customers need undertake as part of an upgrade. However, consultants disagreed. Jim Spath of Black and Decker for instance said: "There is no way we...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Lawson Q109: 'sloppy execution'

Harry Debes, CEO at Lawson Software doesn't mince his words. So when the company announced its missed Q1 fiscal 2009 results PDF yesterday it came as no surprise that during the earnings call he had this to say about the way the company performed: ...some of this was sloppy...

Tags: Revenue, Lawson Software Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and away

Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and awaySame old story"Results in the prior year were impacted by the deferral of $1.64 billion of revenue and operating income and $0.11 of diluted earnings per share from the second to the third quarter of fiscal 2007, due primarily to technology...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Financial accounting, Operational accounting, paragraph, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Q2 earning, Microsoft Q2

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

Apple U.S. market share hits 5 percent

Apple U.S. market share hits 5 percentVery impressive for AppleConsidering most of their sales DON'T go to enterprise markets whereas most sales of HP and Dell DO.5% is a misleading figure...5% is a misleading figure, considering the majority of Apple's products end up on a desktop at home. HP,...

Tags: Operating systems, Sales strategy, Desktops, Enterprise software, Apple Inc., operating system, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, enterprise market, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-19

DreamKey User Friendly Online Software Activation XT (Windows)

User features include both online and offline activation, adjustable activation deferral counter and automatic reactivation of repaired machines. Security features include hardware dependent activation to prevent software backup piracy, free personal encryption key renewal as often as you wish, email alerts of key misuse. Other developer features include License Emailing...

Tags: Software, Activation, Microsoft Windows, Web Site Development, Backups, Tools & Techniques, Web Technology, Internet, Management

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