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Microsoft as Sony, Nintendo and Sony

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Each generation of consoles see lines move between different manufacturers, so the market has changed during this generation next-gen, during which Microsoft has implemented the strategy of Sony, as Sony and Nintendo.

Microsoft as Sony, Nintendo and Sony

The video game industry is made of twists, successes, failures. Sega and its very good Dreamcast saw by Microsoft to reveal the unexpected challenger console show. Meanwhile, Sony and Nintendo each other to better himself to fight: Nintendo relying on a strong supply of First Party Games, Sony creating a strong partnership with the Third Party studios to offer consumers a wide range of successful titles . Strategies that have evolved over the past three years. Continue reading →

The end of Windows XP

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The end is near for Windows XP: what are you going to do?

After years of tweaking, patching, and otherwise cajoling the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, many administrators and users feel comfortable with their current systems. But now the writing is on the wall, and the dominance of Windows XP in the marketplace is slowly but surely being squeezed by Windows Vista, Linux, Mac OS X, and eventually Windows 7.

Like it or not, information technology professionals have no choice but to plan for another operating system migration. The aging equipment sitting on many a user’s desk is going to have to be replaced, and that will likely mean a new operating system.

Have you been planning for this eventuality? Would you like to know what your peers are thinking on this subject? I certainly would.

To get the ball rolling and to give us a starting point for discussion, I created the following set of poll questions. The idea is to get a glimpse of the general thinking among IT pros and then expand on the topic to gain a little more in-depth collective insight.techrepublic

Cisco may offer Web-based office software

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Cisco Systems Inc is considering offering Web-based alternatives to Microsoft Corp’s popular Office software as the networking giant expands on the Internet.

Cisco Senior Vice President Doug Dennerline said on Tuesday his company may develop a service that would allow business users to create documents they could draft and share through its WebEx meeting and collaboration service.

Internet-based alternatives to Microsoft Office cropped up about five years ago, but corporate users have yet to embrace them. If the approach does take off, it could become big business: Microsoft’s Office division rang up sales of $60 billion in the software company’s most-recent fiscal year. Continue reading →