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Late last week, Microsoft announced that Kirill Tatarinov has been selected as the new head of the troubled Microsoft Business Solutions group that produces a variety of software for small and medium businesses under the Dynamics brand.
One of the benefits of of paying a premium price for the Ultimate version of Windows Vista was the promise of exclusive extras - free programs, services, and related content that you wouldn’t get if you didn’t fork over the loot for the priciest version of Vista. The only problem is that after an initial burst of a few “extras” after launch, they have been mostly conspicuous by their absence and far short of the cornucopia that had been promised (cf. Long Zheng’s Windows Ultimate Extras is a sham - where’s the responsibility?). This is a clearly a black eye for for Microsoft’s attempt to create a premium Vista brand and today Microsoft’s Barry Goffe (Director, Windows Vista Ultimate) attempted to placate the customers:
Nintendo’s Wii game console has left both Sony’s PS3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 far behind in Japanese sales and is pulling away according to statistics from Japanese publisher Enterbrain.
IT infrastructure services company Savvis Inc. announced on Friday that it had sold two adjoining data centers in Santa Clara, California to Microsoft for $200 million. Microsoft had been the only occupant of the data centers which contain 250,000 sq. ft. of floor space and the sale rmarked the termination of a long term colocation contract which had been set to expire in 2010.
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