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Windows 7 for $30 USD? Students, Gather ‘Round!

Monday, September 21st, 2009
Microsoft Windows 7

Microsoft Windows 7

Microsoft is offering Windows 7: Home Premium operating system to college students for just $30. The OS usually sells for $119! No joke!

Microsoft has formed a partnership with distributor Digital River giving anyone with an active .EDU e-mail address access to purchase Windows 7 for only $30. This even beats Microsoft’s promotion of offering upgrades for only $50 back in June, 2009!

Microsoft reported that they may require proof of enrollment, but they have not stated how strictly they will be following this guideline.  Interesting enough, many are not sure if college institutions will be supporting Windows 7 upon release, especially those who specialize in IT departments due to application compatibility.

Windows 7 has been getting rave reviews, however.  It seems like time will only tell when Microsoft releases it’s latest operating system in October.  Oh yeah — I already registered and bought my copy! I’m just waiting for the release date!

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Sprint Introduces Unlimited Mobile to Mobile

Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Sprint Cellular Service

Sprint Cellular Service

September 10, 2009 – I got the notice today in my paperwork this morning from Sprint.  The 49 million subscriber network is now offering unlimited Mobile to Mobile minutes to their everything Data plans starting at $69.99. Calling it the “Any Mobile, Anytime” feature, all customers who have a unlimited data on their plan will start to experience the unlimited mobile to mobile minutes to any carrier nation wide. Yet another great reason to switch to Sprint!

Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint,  stated at the official announcement, “We don’t think our customers want to have to keep track of or only talk to friends, colleagues or family members who make the same choices as they do.”

Sprint offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users.

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Windows XP Usage Drops 1.1%

Monday, September 7th, 2009
Windows XP Logo

Windows XP Logo

The biggest danger to Windows 7 and Windows Vista isn’t Mac OS X or Linux — it’s Windows XP, whose hard-core fans refuse to give up the aging operating system. But it looks as if XP may finally be on the way out, which is good news for Microsoft.

Computeworld reports that according to the Web measurement company Net Applications

Windows XP’s share of the OS usage market fell 1.1 percentage points during August, tying its November 2008 record drop.

At the same time, Vista and Windows 7 use was up, Vista by 0.9 percent, and Windows 7 by 0.3 percent. Windows XP is still dominant, though, with 71.8 percent use, compared to 18.8 percent for Vista, and 1.2 percent for Windows 7. Mac OS X use has stalled, with 4.9 percent share.

As I’ve written before, in Microsoft’s biggest enemies: Windows XP and IE 6, XP’s continuing dominance presents a serious problem for Microsoft. Enterprises staying with XP means they’re not paying for upgrades to Vista or Windows 7. As for consumers who opt to stay with XP, the problem isn’t really upgrade revenue, because consumer upgrades are a drop in the bucket. The real problem is that XP users don’t buy new PCs, and so Microsoft is losing out on new sales.

I think that Windows 7 will go a long way towards solving the problem for Microsoft. It’s gotten a far batter reception than Windows Vista did, so enterprises won’t shy away from it. And XP PCs are starting to look long in the tooth, so consumers will most likely be ready to get new hardware — and new versions of Windows.

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