Shelves Windows 8: Dell aims at the head of walk

Business – the manufacturer texan ré pè you qu’ he intends to make systè me d’ exploitation of Microsoft a pillar of its straté gie produced towards the companies, via in particular a range of shelves Windows 8.

Dell put much on supporting its activitA© on the segment Undertaken, has  the time on family PC and the shelves. With “We will be it  dA¨s the first day out of Windows 8 has” has in a maintenance on Bloomberg West TV.

In addition to the computers (desktop PC, portable, ultrabook), the manufacturer will propose A©galement a range of shelves Windows 8.

Strong demand of the companies for the shelves with Office

According to the owner of Dell, there is a strong demand on behalf of the companies for shelves on which can turn the Windows applications and in particular the Office software. A commercial argument on which it does count its?? to support to counter the percA©e?? who, according to a prA©vision of Forrester citA© by Bloomberg, would be on a rate of 10 billion dollars of sales to the companies this annA©e. What would explain also why Microsoft does not seem to want to carry has? ¦

Dell posts its intention to position like the leader of the segment of, but will continue has  to propose terminals under Android has assurA© Amit Midha, prA©sident it Asian branch. (Eureka Press)

a cheap iPad in preparation?

Technology – One prê you &worsen; Apple the volonté of launching dé goal a 2012 « iPad mini » in the neighbourhoods of 200 dollars so d' to amplify its effect of range like it l' made for l' iPhone.

a iPad low-cost? AprA¨s to have circulA© during
long months have  matter of?? , my? me rumour its?? engage dA©sormais on the subject
Apple shelf. It has A©tA© lancA©e by an analyst of Ticonderoga
SecuritiesA, according to which has “has iPad
miniA has” will be lancA© dA©but 2012 for a price bordering the 200 dollars.

It
does term have “has miniA has” its?? would not apply has  size of the shelf but
well has  its tariff. One remembers indeed that dA©clarA© had that them
shelves of less than 9 inches A©taient vouA©es has  ?? A©chec. And?? one sees badly its
successors to take again the torch while commenA§ant by contradicting it….

To drive out on the segment of Kindle Fire

With a iPad
more accessible, Apple its?? the marchA© by bottom would open while coming to drive out on
the grounds da?? Amazon and of sound. A stratA©gie that the firm has 
has apple just set up for?? iPhone with the 3G S which becomes free,
and?? iPhone 4 of 8 Go which passes in midrange has  99 dollars.

According to
?? analyst citA© by Business Insider, the exit of?? iPad mini will be followed
launching da?? a iPad 3 during the deuxiA¨me quarter 2012. (Eureka Press)

the German authorities admit having uses a Trojan horse

SA©curitA© – Several German Lands admitted having utilisé a police spyware within the framework d’ enquê your. Autorité S ensure that this use respects the law, which question Chaos Computer Club, for which R2D2 pré feels moreover faults.

R2D2, Ca?? is the name donnA© with the software spy conA§u for the German autoritA©s in order to allow the forces?? order to lead of A©coutes data processing. Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has publiA© the week derniA¨re source code of this program.

a German law authorizes?? use, under strict conditions, of this type of data-processing device. However, according to the CCC, not only R2D2 prA©sente of the faults, but he would violate A©galement the lA©gislation of the country.

a policeware utilisA© since approximately 2 years

Of the charges contestA©es by the German ministA¨re of?? intA©rior. According to did the site, citA© by The Register, several LA¤nders German, at least five, recognize that the local police had exploited this spyware for approximately two years in criminal cases and enquA? your liA©es with the drug trafficking.

But according to the autoritA©s, of which the minister of?? intA©rior of BaviA¨re Joachim Herrmann, the police Trojan horse has A©tA© utilisA© in the respect of the law, rA©futant by consA©quent the charges of Chaos Computer Club.

According to, the Trojan horse would have A©tA© obtained by the CCC by?? intermA©diaire da?? , Patrick Schladt. Would the program have A©tA© installA© on?? laptop of its customer has  ?? occasion of its passage to the customs has  ?? aA©roport international of Munich.

the German law violA©e?

On Naked Security, Sophos prA©cise that R2D2 (repA©rA© dA¨s 2010) allows da?? espionner of the calls on Skype, conversations on the transport instantanA©es, to supervise navigation Internet of the PC infectA© or da?? to record strike them keyboard.

a setting has  day has  outdistance, for example to install code supplA©mentaire, is possible A©galement. However, points out the sociA©tA© sA©curitA©, the German constitutional court prohibited with the police spyware to be able altA©rer the code of?? computer surveillA©, so in particular guaranteeing?? intA©gritA© of the evidence.

the solutions of CRM weighed 9,1 billion dollars in 2008

The march of the management of the client relationship is rest dynamic in 2008 according to the indicators of the Gartner cabinet, with a figure D `increasing businesses of 12,5% over one year.
# the salesmen D `applications of CRM less have encaiss in 2008 pas than 9,15 billion dollars, that is to say 12,5% of more than the Anne prcdente. However, all diteurs N `did not know a succs quivalent.
# If remains leader in terms of share of march (22,5% compared with 25,5% in 2007), its figure D `businesses has stagn, drop by 0,1% over one year 2055 million dollars. Still a weight lger of the sector, Microsoft has on the other hand enregistr a growth record of its sales, +75%, propelling it the 4th place with 585 million dollars. Dynamics CRM would have crossed the course of the million D `users according to the ditor.
# Microsoft arrives thus derrire, troisime, and Oracle, second with a share of march of 16,1%. The spcialist of the CRM in hberg mode, Salesforce, has D `elsewhere boucl a good Anne 2008 with sales in rise of 45% according to Gartner. Its SaaS services allowed him D `to garner 965 million dollars of figures D `businesses. SaaS account dsormais for 20% of the sales in the CRM, against 15% in 2007.

a pirate version of Windows 7 uses to infect computers

Of the repugnant versions of Windows 7 by a Trojan horse allowed pirates to constitute a rseau PC zombies strong D `approximately 30.000 computers according to researchers in scurit of the socit Damballa.
# D `aprs the experts in scurit of Damballa, the propagation of this version vrole of Windows 7 S `is translated by the infection D `approximately 27. 000 PC. Once the repugnant computers, the pirate used the waiter of contrle botnet to install D `other malevolent codes.
# D `other versions of Windows 7 embarking of the viruses circulate on Internet according to the researchers of Damballa. Finalit N `is not however systmatiquement to constitute a botnet, a rseau D `computers zombies.
# Trend Micro thus has identifi on sites of torrent one whose name lets believe qu `it S `acts of. It is in all the cases recommand for the users of on sites of confidence, and in particular that of the ditor.
# Windows 7 is tlchargeable free jusqu `in July 2009. The licence will remain moreover valid jusqu `June 2010, but with a dgradation of the fonctionnalits to start from March. This date passes, the user will be able to choose or not D `to acqurir the final version, and paying, of Windows 7.

the netbooks reprsentent 20% of the march portables in the first quarter

Technologie – the figures of the DisplaySearch cabinet rvlent that the netbooks counted for 20% of the world march laptops at the time of the first quarter. Acer and Asus are the leaders incontests of this march.

In these times of rcession, the data-processing march connat it one as of its worst priodes. But as in D `other sectors, the low-cost car its pingle of the play.

According to the figures of the first quarter livrs by DisplaySearch, the netbooks have totalis 20% of the march portables in the world. And this malgr one of which we had parl.

Minus 47% for Asus and – 18% for Acer

Acer, the n1 of the netbook with 30,5% of shares of march saw its sales falling of 18% between the last quarters 2008 and first quarter of Anne. What does not have it empch deuxime place of the march of the Dell portables. Asus knew worst the dgringolade with one – 47% between the end 2008 and dbut 2009.

a thing is clear, according to DisplaySearch, the situation of the march of the portables would have T worse without the netbooks, moving back of 19% instead of 3% per report/ratio Mrs. priode the Anne dernire.

It is intressant to note that the strongest rate of pntration of these products is in the zone Europe the Middle East which adds up 45% of volumes. That S `explains in particular by the offers of the oprateurs of tlphonie who subsidize these apparatuses. (Eureka Press)

Vente binds: Microsoft heard by the Commission europenne on June 3

Lgislation – Brussels has confirm which would hear the arguments of Microsoft in laffaire of the sale binds dInternet Explorer and Windows to leave June 3.

Aprs to have rpondu by crit at the end of April the calling into question of the Commission europenne, Microsoft will be heard by this one at the time D `a fixed audience at June 3. C `is this occasion which the firm will be able prsenter its arguments to counter the charge of distortion of the competition causes, according to the Commission, by the sale D `Internet Explorer and of Windows binds. This practice was dnonce the origin by Opera Software which had seized the authorities europennes in 2007.

In the course of procdure, Google, Mozilla and made it europen for the systmes interoprables (ECIS) of which IBM, Adobe, Nokia, Red Hat and Sun are members, have all T names third parties. The one of the voques options by the autorits europennes would be D `to oblige Microsoft prinstaller D `other navigators that it his in Windows.

A boulevard for Google

According to escapes rvles by Financial Times, Microsoft would intend to center its dfense on the following central argument: the intervention of the Commission europenne would have as a direct consquence to reinforce the monopoly of Google on the march of the online search. Why?

Because the competitor navigators, Firefox and Opera in particular, have agreements to use Google like search engine by dfaut. Without speaking about Chromium, the navigator house of Google. Microsoft would galement intend galement to put forward an infringement its proprit intellectual on Windows. (Eureka Press)

ToIP: the companies want qualit service and clear invoicing

Opinion D `expert – In company ladoption of the tlphonie on IP sopre according to a progressive rate/rhythm impos by technological cycles. In a letter of lArcep, Liquid air and PSA Lemon-yellow Peugeot sexpriment on their migration.

L `Autorit of rgulation of the tlcommunications (Arcep) devotes its letter D `information of March/April to the march of in company. Arcep notes in particular a slowness in the swing towards the all-IP compared to the general public. A migration speed modre qu `it explains by the technological cycles rgissant the life of the company, of which lasts it of life of the PABX, on average 5 7 years.
#, in terms of continuit of service in particular, is another of the brakes the adoption of these technologies of tlphonie. The autocommunateurs (or architectures hybrid) should thus be still maintained in company. According to Arcep, the ISDN reprsente thus a cord of recall brings to remain jusqu `what the services of the traditional tlphonie can tre rpliqus, qualit of service quivalente, on the IP.
# « The five years return on investment pushes us prudence »
# As for the dclenchor of the projects in matire of ToIP, it S `generally acts D `a volont to decrease the dpenses in tlcommunications (via IP-PBX or). Nanmoins, Arcep estimates that the return on investment of these dploiements remains still complex to quantify.
# Several large companies have dj jump however the step in France. C `is for example the case D `Liquid air for which the tlcoms reprsentent each Anne approximately 50 million D `euros of budget (50% give some and 50% in voice). Moreover, the group records each Anne a growth of these volumes went back and voice to 5 10%.
# to accompany this growth, Liquid air is not D `a modle of management dcentralise on the level of the subsidiary companies (130 in the world) a progressive concentration of the centers of give and D `unification of the solutions (rseau, transport, nomadism).
# « The mutualisation of the means and the franchisation of the services tlcoms allow us aujourd `today D `acclrer the processes mtiers, and in fine the accs with the march. The matrise of the cots the chelle one of the group is, it, troitement binds the matrise &amp uses; #187; explain Sylvain Rou, rseaux director and tlcommunications D `Liquid air.
# « The prices of the roaming voices and dated are not very comprhensibles »
# Because of convergence of technologies, the multinational intends to rock intgralement on the IP, of manire progressive however, according to a rate of 5 7 years. Migration N `is indeed not without posing some difficults. In addition to the turn towards new a modle D `organization centralizes, Liquid air must compose with the constraint financire.
# « One needs a minimum investment of dpart: that ncessite D `to acqurir in exchange of the quipements ToIP, D `to invest in the recblage certain growing old sites – the voice tolre not the old men cbles IP! With final, the five years return on investment pushes us prudence, and fixes the limits of the very total modle » Sylvain Rou informs.

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According to Microsoft, 96% of the netbooks sold in the USA are quips of Windows

Technology – In lespace dun year, the prsence of Microsoft on the march of the netbooks in the United States has explos littralement, with dtriment of Linux. Windows XP is lartisan of this succs.

Quoting the figures D `a tude ralise by the cabinet NPD, Microsoft clamp high and strong that its share of march on the segment of the netbooks in the United States leaped of 10% 96% in one year. On the windowsteamblog, Brandon LeBlanc comments on these figures by explaining qu `aprs a a little hard dmarrage, Windows S `is finally impos face for this kind of machines low cost.

On the contrary, according to him, the users would be quickly aperus qu `they wished to find an identical environment that qu `they know on a traditional PC. And to quote in example MSI which would have indiqu that the rate of return of the netbooks quips of Linux conceals 4 times more lev that for Windows. In England, Carephone Warehouse has these to sell netbooks under Linux for reasons Mrs. adds Brandon LeBlanc.

Microsoft has sauv the setting grce Windows XP…

what the latter prcise not however, C `is that C `is with Windows XP which the firm could save the pieces of furniture on the march netbooks. Because Vista, too greedy in resources, has quickly T cart by the manufacturers. What on occasion a fall of the incomes of Microsoft since the licence of Windows XP dimensions less expensive than that of Vista. C `is for this reason in particular that the firm of Redmond chose to prolong the exploitation of Windows XP while waiting for the exit D `a netbook of Windows 7.

… which should continue its carrire jusqu `in 2010

But according to the dernires rumours, HP would have obtained the right to continue to sell PC quips of Windows XP jusqu `at April 30, 2010. The dernire fixed official deadline by Microsoft is on May 30, 2009. The downgrade of Vista towards XP is as him autoris jusqu `next July.

If information came vrifier, Windows XP would be still commercialis well aprs the exit of Windows 7! What to leave time to the customers to be made a ide on this new OS without imposing it of goal in white.

the exprience Vista will have alluvium of the traces… (Eureka Press)

the virtualisation of the work station will force the manufacturers dvelopper a

Analyzes – 15% of the PC in company will be virtualiss and hbergs D `here 2014 according to Gartner. A situation which goes pnaliser the sales of matriel nine and should push the manufacturers dvelopper also an offer of service.

Mrs. if it remains less rpandue that on waiters, the virtualisation of the work station tends to gain ground in company according to the Gartner cabinet. The virtual work station, C `is–to say hberg and dlivr distance user (HVD for Hosted virtual desktop), should connatre a strong growth.
# the virtualisation would thus assist from the customer lger, whose adoption is remainder modre during these dernires annes. Gartner considers thus the march world virtual stations hbergs 500.000 units in 2009, but 66 million in 2014. The prvision develops this segment thus 65,7 billion dollars in five years, jusqu `reprsenter 40% of the march of the PC D `undertaken, against less than 1% currently.
# Not D `implmentations D `HVD before 2010
# what to rjouir the actors of the customer lger and the virtualisation, in tte, which would owe tre followed prs par. D `aprs Gartner, Microsoft should position on the crneau HVD, in partnership with Citrix, during the 18 24 next months.
# On the other hand, the cabinet D `tude warns the manufacturers D `computers, inviting them ds prsent to adjust their policies of sale and their modles of rmunration to accompany the request, under penalty of losing a big part of the data-processing dpenses companies. Mrs. if the great boom of the station virtualis should not occur this Anne, according to her research director, Annette Jump.
# the adoption of this technology would owe tre inhibits in 2009 by the deceleration conomic. The installation D `architecture of the type requires the purchase of waiters supplmentaires, a band-width sufficiently consquente and a software for the administration. The implmentations would have by consquent tre diffres jusqu `in 2010 and 2011.
# the virtualisation draws dj to the bottom the sales Once again of waiters
#, the virtualisation is prsente like a factor of upheaval for computing industry. Because of its use of the ends of rationalization of the centers of give, it pse dj on – Mrs. if this weight is difficult valuer. Atari has, for example, concentr on four waiters existing which counted forty before it.
# the leader France of Dell, Thierry Small, does not deny this phnomne: « C `is indniable. The virtualisation has its share in the dcroissance march of the waiters. And us N `probably still made that 5 10% of this qu `it are possible of raliser in the field of the virtualisation of the systmes D `information. Two attitudes are possible face this report: to cry over the rduction of the number of sold waiters, or S `to adapt the news gives by dveloppant offers intend to accompany the companies. Moreover, if the virtualisation has an impact on the sales in units, it n the other hand contributes to increase the average configuration of the waiters, and thus the price. »
# However association D `a double comptence – matriel more service – S `is not dveloppe among the computer makers under the only impulse of the virtualisation. IBM and HP have dj accentu their prsence in the services, in particular by repurchases, like that D `. As Dell, S `it asserts to offer serv …