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| But maybe the decision was much more personal. There is a strong executive
| tie between Microsoft and Wal-Mart.
|
| Remember Microsoft's COO, Kevin Turner? He's a former Wal-Mart executive.
| Turner used to run Wal-Mart's Sam's Club business unit and before that was
| Microsoft's chief information officer.
|
| Even when Wal-Mart has made motions toward Linux and open source, Microsoft
| (no doubt inspired by Turner) has been there to help it see the light. It was
| likely Turner who pushed Wal-Mart to go on the record as adopting SUSE Linux
| for its Linux deployments because of patent protection. Wal-Mart never goes
| on the record for anything related to IT purchases. The fact that it did in
| this case says a lot about the exeuctive sleepovers that happen between the
| two companies.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9890880-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
FUD Alert! Wal-Mart, Everex & Linux
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| Monday, the Associated Press released a story on Wal-Mart’s decision to
| discontinue the line of Everex Green gPCs in their brick-and-mortar stores.
| It appears that the retail giant has discovered that the demand for low-cost
| ($199USD) computers is much higher online than in the stores, so they decided
| to make the offering a web-only one, freeing up valuable floor and shelf
| space for other products that do sell well in the stores.
|
| [...]
|
| Finally, I’d like to add that while the bulk of this article concerns
| Wal-Mart and Everex, and to an extent Linux, the AP still felt it was
| necessary to give Microsoft billing in the very first line (not that Redmond
| minds the much-needed free advertising, of course)! The AP just wants to make
| sure that everyone knows that this was a Linux-only phenomenon and rest
| assured that sales of machines loaded with Microsoft Corp’s Windows operating
| system were in no way impacted.
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http://linuxfud.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/fud-alert-wal-mart-everex-linux/
Yesterday:
Please Note: Wal-Mart is STILL SELLING Linux
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| Gotta love tech bloggers and so called 'journalists'. There is alot of buzz
| in tech media this week related to an AP report that claims that Wal-Mart is
| dropping the Everex Linux PC's.
|
| Reality is that just as you could last week, you can go to Wal-Mart.com (and
| here I'll make it easy for you and even give you the link:
| http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8304655) and buy the
| Everex gPC today.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/03/please-note-walmart-is-still-s.html
Recent:
Wal-Mart: Microsoft should kill Vista Home Basic
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| You may think of Wal-Mart as a down-market PC seller, but as emails in the
| Vista "junk PC" case show, Wal-Mart was furious at Microsoft's Vista Capable
| scheme, and thought that Vista Home Basic never should have been developed,
| much less released. They're not alone. Other retailers, notably Office Depot,
| thought Vista Home Basic should have been killed. Here's all the dirt,
| including emails.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/wal_mart_microsoft_should_kill_vista_home_basic
Related:
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
|
| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
|
| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
DSG continues retailer woes
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| DSG, the company formerly known as Dixons, became the latest British retailer
| to report a drop in profits for the summer months today. But it wasn’t all
| down to the rotten weather – this time it was also Microsoft’s fault.
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http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/newsalerts/article/748756/dsg-continues-retailer-woes/
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