IT Management
Informationweek, 9/9/02: Uncloud The Crystal Ball: Pick Your Experts Carefully Sept. 9, 2002
By Eileen Colkin
Aberdeen Group said last month that IT executives planned to increase spending 3.7% during the next six months. Forrester Research said IT spending will increase 2.3% during 2002, compared with 2001. While not a huge difference, these forecasts underline the inconsistencies among the IT spending predictions that appear almost weekly from various research and investment firms.
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PC Industry
Reuters, 9/8/02: IDC cuts 2002 PC sales outlook, sees slow holidays
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Technology market research firm IDC on Monday slashed its forecast for personal computer sales this year to a 1.1 percent rise, saying the key year-end holiday sales period would prove disappointing.
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Intel
Information Week, 9/9/02: Intel Sheds Software Unit
By Aaron Ricadela And Paul McDougall
Intel sold most of a PC-management software unit to a pair of venture-capital companies last week as it continues to divest peripheral businesses to focus on semiconductors. The move comes amid weak demand for computer chips and competition from Advanced Micro Devices that has forced Intel to cut prices.
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Microsoft
Infoworld, 9/6/02: Microsoft's Allchin touts future of Windows server platform
By Paul Krill
SEATTLE -- MICROSOFT, with its Windows server platform set to gain dramatic improvements in security, storage, and reliability, wants developers to build server applications that will last for decades, said Jim Allchin, group vice president of the company's platforms group, in a speech at the Microsoft DevCon conference here Friday.
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Infoworld, 9/9/02: PC makers take slow road to XP update
By Joe Wilcox
Microsoft on Monday issued the first update, or service pack, for the Windows XP operating system. But the update, available as a free download from Microsoft's Web site, may not appear on some new PCs until next year.
The release of a first service pack is typically a watershed event for a new version of Windows, signaling that the initial shakedown is over and that the operating system is ready for primetime. Many businesses waited to upgrade to Windows 2000, for example, until Microsoft released the first update in July 2000, about five months after the operating system launched.
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