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Don’t Ignore Existing Customers
I have a deadline to meet today. Today is the final day that I can sign a new service agreement with my home heating oil service provider, and the price tag isn’t small. My annual heating oil bill came to about $2,700 last year. Expensive? Well, it ain’t cheap, even after I locked into…
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Bill Gates Bids Teary Farewell to Microsoft
REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) – Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world’s most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home. He leaves Microsoft, which he co-founded with childhood friend Paul Allen in…
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Microsoft Changing Channels?
For the 400,000 resellers whose businesses depend on Microsoft’s partner programs, the past year has been spent watching Bill Gates wean himself from the company he built and wondering what the future holds for the world’s biggest technology partner ecosystem. Microsoft’s 400,000 worldwide partners drive about 95 percent of Microsoft’s revenue, according to Michael Speyer,…
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Without Gates, Microsoft`s Channel Changes Little
In our celebrity obsessed culture, we make superstars of musicians, elevate rich heiresses and B-movie actresses to global fame and create entire communities devoted to showcasing our own crudely produced Web videos. So it’s little wonder that the departure of a corporate icon such as Bill Gates is met with a mix of fear and…
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No Guarantee of Success for Microsoft’s Hyper-V Virtualization
With the release to manufacturing of Hyper-V, Microsoft is hoping that Windows Server 2008 users will see the product as the de facto virtualization product for the enterprise. What’s more, Microsoft is looking to use Hyper-V as a catalyst for the expanded adoption of Windows Server 2008. While those accomplishments may be lofty goals, one…
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