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  • Sprint dares to break with the two-year upgrade pack

    Posted February 13, 2012 - 5:09 pm

    One carrier is willing to step outside the two-year mindset and give phone droppers and eager upgraders something sweeter than a kick in the wallet

  • Why your Android phone probably isn't upgrading to 4.0

    Posted December 26, 2011 - 10:57 am

    You'd think the world's best-selling smartphone of 2010 would have priority in upgrading to the latest and greatest Android system. You'd be wrong.

  • Crisis expert bashes Microsoft over Windows Phone 7 update fiasco

    Posted March 30, 2011 - 3:00 pm

    Microsoft needlessly botched getting timely updates for Windows Phone 7 to customers and antagonized some of its most loyal fans by not delivering on its promises, a crisis communication expert said today.

  • Microsoft may face resistance to Windows 8

    Posted November 8, 2010 - 6:24 pm

    Windows 7 has been a nice success for Microsoft, especially in the wake of the Vista debacle. But a Gartner analyst doubts that IT will be happily opening its wallets again in 2012.

  • Upgrade, repair, replace, or limp along?

    Posted February 13, 2009 - 12:55 pm

    When money's tight, how do you keep things going and save money at the same time? I think you need a process to decide what to do with equipment that dies. When are you better off repairing/replacing, when to upgrade, and when to just let it die and do without?

  • Five insane upgrades that you should never do

    Posted August 21, 2008 - 1:08 pm

    Just because you can do something, that doesn't mean you should. That old truism goes double for computers. But some PC geeks are so fanatical about performance, so doggedly determined to push their hardware to extremes, that they'll go to ridiculous lengths to wring a few more clock cycles out of their components or add a little more cool factor to their rig.

  • Windows XP SP3: Good for many but not for all

    Posted May 19, 2008 - 6:31 pm

    Today, we know one thing for certain: if your customers are running certain Hewlett-Packard PCs with an AMD processor, head for the hills. Or, at the very least, don't install the update. Too late? Bummer.

  • Vista vacuum blowback

    Posted October 18, 2006 - 12:26 pm

    My Vista Budget Vacuum column got Slashdotted, so 500 plus message replies alternate between calling me an idiot and a genius. Unfortunately, the Slashdot headline made it sound like the cost estimates were for just Vista. My point is that Vista is the engine pulling a long train of other products and services some vice presidents will demand. Those are the ones that cost money.

  • The Vista budget vacuum

    Posted October 4, 2006 - 2:02 pm

    Strange times indeed when the stock market analysts hope a new Microsoft operating system will counteract the declining housing market, but that's the hope of some for next fall. If your company plans to play the Vista game, start cooking your books now. I estimate each Vista user will cost your company between $3,250 and $5,000. That's each and every Vista user. Money will go to Microsoft for Vista and Office 2007, to hardware vendors for new PCs and components, and possibly a few bucks to Apple for those users jumping to a Mac. After all, if Apple's higher cost has been the factor keeping your company from trying a Mac, that factor just washed away.
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