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Windows 98: It’s Not Dead Yet
Microsoft last week bowed to customer pressure and announced that it will continue extended support for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Millennium Edition until June 30, 2006. Support for Windows 98 and 98 SE was to be phased out last week, with support for Windows ME due to stop Dec. 31. But…
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Wall Street Winning Streak Continues
Just when you thought channel stocks were ready for a breather, they continue to climb even higher. For the week ended Jan. 16, our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index rose 3.69 percent to 1208.30. The index is up 9.05 percent this year and 20.83 percent since its October 2003 inception. IBM Corp. extended the…
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Microsoft Zeros In on Lotus A cadre of former Lotus software employees is leading a reinvigorated push at Microsoft Corp. to lure Lotus customers to .Net with new products and services. Microsoft Expands .Net With Xen The hot new language from Microsoft Research offers native XML and database support (in addition to the powerful punch…
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Microsoft Zeros In on Lotus
A cadre of former Lotus software employees is leading a reinvigorated push at Microsoft Corp. to lure Lotus customers to .Net with new products and services. Over the next six to eight months, the Redmond, Wash., company plans to roll out a series of initiatives, including a tool kit, due this summer, that allows Domino…
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Contract Watch: Accenture and HP Close Online Store
Fourteen months after Hewlett-Packard Co. and Accenture Ltd. unveiled the first “HP Store on eBay,” the specialized online site is now dark. Accenture launched and managed the HP Store in November 2002 as part of its “Connection to eBay” (C2E) strategy. The HP Store offered refurbished PCs, workstations, servers, handhelds, printers and accessories. Accenture charged…
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VARs Await 64-bit Desktop Apps
Advanced Micro Device’s new 64-bit Athlon chip may well set the market on fire later this year. That’s the take of many VARs and solution providers. But while AMD’s 64-bit Opteron chip for servers is already finding its way into the enterprise, the Athlon desktop market has been slow to catch fire in the enterprises,…
