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PC World, Currys staff to be dumped in DSGi rescue plan?
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| Hundreds of PC World and Currys staff could see the job axe swing on Thursday
| (15 May) when the stores’ owner DSG International (DSGi) announces its latest
| trading statement and strategy review.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/dsgi_store_closures_speculation/
Before dismissing the subject line, read the stories below.
Related:
Currys group blames Vista for poor sales
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| DSG, the group behind Currys and PC World, has warned that poor sales of
| Vista could slash its profits by around £20 million.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/131507/currys-group-blames-vista-for-poor-sales.html
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/
PC retailer's hard facts contradicts Microsoft's success claims:
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| While Microsoft continues to praise the market success of its
| latest operating system, the number of critical voices and negative
| comments on sales figures for Vista continues to rise. Now, the
| Dixon Store Group (DSG), a British retail chain, has released
| specific figures. The firm says that it earned 20 million pounds
| less in the first two quarters of the year because sales of Vista
| products did not meet expectations.
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| The DSG says it has had to write off excess inventory, which
| brought down the retailer's gross margin by 2 percent. The Group
| says that far fewer Vista computers were sold at its PC World chain
| than were put on inventory.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97655/from/rss09
Interesting comment from CompUSA
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| Every single one of them he said was returned from consumers... and that they
| (CompUSA) couldn't ship them back. As he heard, Microsoft wasn't giving
| credit back for unsold or returned copies... and didn't want the returned
| figures made public... He wouldn't say that every single one of them
| exchanged for a copy of Xp, he didn't know if that was true. So, I asked how
| many boxes did they have. Same glare, followed with a "You do not want to
| know" type statement.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/12/interesting-comment-from-compusa.html
CompUSA to close all of its 103 stores
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| The consumer electronics store will run store-closing sales during the
| holidays to get rid of inventory.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/07/technology/compusa.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007120719
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.
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| 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.
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| "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
Recent:
Microsoft Profit Drops; Forecast May Miss Estimates
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| The world's biggest software maker said sales of Windows for PCs sank 24
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| percent and revenue from its online advertising unit came in at the low end
| ^^^^^^^
| of its projections. Microsoft's report contrasted with positive comments from
| chipmaker Intel Corp. and computer company International Business Machines
| Corp.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft declined $1.60 to $30.20 in extended trading after closing at
| $31.80 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The stock has
| fallen 11 percent this year.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aQ7_iN1SxJ.c&refer=worldwide
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