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KACE, a systems management appliance company, announced on Nov. 19 that its new survey revealed that 90 percent of the Windows users are concerned about migrating to Vista, and that 44 percent would consider deploying Macs or Linux-based systems to avoid Vista migration. While Microsoft claims...

Microsoft Corp's Windows Vista is starting to see mass adoption from businesses nearly a year after it was released, the company said while predicting a strong first holiday season for the product. "We feel like we are starting to hit our stride not only in demand, but in deployment in...

Microsoft shares reach their highest level in six years, recalling the tech boom of 2000. Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates grew $2.67-billion richer Friday after his company trounced analysts' estimates for sales and profit, propelling the shares to their highest level in six years...

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results Quarterly Mac Sales Set New Record Quarterly iPhone Sales Exceed One Million CUPERTINO, California—October 22, 2007—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2007. The Company posted revenue of...

A new study shows that Microsoft controls over 40 percent of the IT industry. Research company IDC surveyed 82 countries and measured the economic impact of the IT industry, and Microsoft specifically. That number represents about 42 percent of the overall IT market, according to the data...

20 percent of Microsoft Office's U.S retail sales are the Mac version, according to NPD. Moreover, Mac users account for 10 percent of retail Windows Vista Business and Ultimate sales. The 20 percent number is impressive for a three-and-a-half year-old product whose successor is scheduled for a...

Microsoft anticipates a boost to its profits, from the new service it flagged off on Thursday, offering customised domains for the huge market of young Indians, a decade after it acquired Hotmail. The free mail service, coolhotmail.com, uses the same Hotmail platform but will offer over 200...

Mozilla's web browser, Firefox, is becoming increasingly popular, gaining on average an extra 3.1 percent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor. Although Microsoft still has 66.5 percent of the browser market...

SO?Does OSS got some grip in developer's side too :) as with projects like mono that allows .net to be used in other platforms too. A better trend :) Now i know why MSFT is woeing young developers stuck in the middle to their platform at any cost.(payments,contests,Mvp's etc)

source: *www.codeproject.com/News.aspx?id=3436 Andreas Clementi, who runs the web site av-comparatives.org, has released his latest report that looks at how well antivirus programs do against threats that have not yet been identified and included in standard AV signatures. The test...

Although most U.S. adults have a cell phone, a computer and Internet access, a study says only a small percentage are participating in Web 2.0 activities. The Pew Internet & American Life Project released on Sunday a study (PDF: A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users) of...

Financial Statements [PDF] Data Summary [PDF] Apple Reports Second Quarter Results Earnings Grow 88 Percent Year-over-Year CUPERTINO, California—April 25, 2007—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 second quarter ended March 31, 2007. The Company posted revenue of $5.26...

Source: - *money.cnn.com/2007/02/08/news/international/pluggedin_murphy_india.fortune/index.htm Discuss!

Apple's Mac sales rock-steady in Q1 despite Vista launch By Aidan Malley Published: 07:35 PM EST Apple Inc. had little to quarrel about with the latest figures from Gartner, which showed the Mac maker standing firm against a tidal wave of Windows PC sales triggered by Vista. For the first...

Are CDs really dead? Mozart wrote only one Requiem, but in recent years, music journalists have written about 80 requiems for the compact disc, mostly in the key of boo-hoo major. Data from the Recording Industry Association of America show that between 2000 and 2005, the number of CDs shipped...

SOURCE : *www.google.co.in/search?q=Survey%3A+Vista+Used+Less+than+1+percent+of+PCs&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Windows Vista may yet prove to be an unstoppable juggernaut, but statistics released Thursday by a market research firm show that the new...

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source: *news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285649,00.htm while Debian GNU/Linux stable is preferred for servers and is a strong stablest server os,with Debian Etch release,I feel it will get to Desktop Users also with its helluva lot of packages available and their DFSG is a reason...

Oracle boosted its offer for Indian banking software provider i-flex Solutions to $1.3 billion, driving up i-flex shares 17 percent to a record high. Oracle, the world's biggest maker of database software, said it wanted to take its stake in i-flex to 90 percent and raised the price it is...

About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium. Within these figures, 41 percent and 78 percent, respectively, require...