PC Industry
Computerworld, 7/19/02: PC sales still slow; merged HP takes top spot in sales
By Ashlee Vance, IDG News Service
PC sales declined for the fifth quarter in a row, dashing hopes for a speedy recovery in computer sales, according to data released yesterday by two research companies.
Worldwide PC shipments for the second quarter of 2002 were down 0.5% from a year ago, to 31.1 million units, according to data from IDC in Framingham, Mass. Shipments were also down from the immediate prior quarter, by 7.8%, IDC said. IDC is a unit of International Data Group Inc., which also publishes Computerworld
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Microsoft
ZDNet, 7/18/02: NT4 users: Act now or ...
By Larry Seltzer
Perhaps the point of Microsoft's licensing plan is to force (well, force is such an ugly word--let's say "compel") customers to upgrade products. Maybe their subscription is an offer you can refuse, but you're going to upgrade your version of Windows on your servers, one way or another.
Recently I've run across companies still running Exchange 4.0 of all things, but the real problem (from Microsoft's point of view, but also objectively in a sense) is NT4. Corporate America is still running a lot of NT4, especially as domain controllers.
Who at this point would bother maintaining large numbers of NT4 servers? A large NT4 enterprise requires huge amounts of babysitting. Servers need to be rebooted every now and then for one thing, a problem that basically goes away in Windows 2000.
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Computerworld, 7/19/02: Gates offers update on Trustworthy Computing effort
By Sam Costello, IDG News Service
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates sent an e-mail to some Microsoft customers today updating them on the company's Trustworthy Computing initiative and reminding them that they also have a significant role to play in securing their computer systems.
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