Dell CEO Michael Dell (Michael Dell) said that his company still considers the PC business is very important as mobile devices business. According to him, these areas provide a saving of resources to help develop the corporate sector.

In combining different directions within a single company there are a number of economic benefits. Mr. Dell during the event Dell World noted that due to the participation in the business PC company can buy accessories for the corporate sector is much cheaper.

About 95% of acquired hard drives, RAM and CPU are on the PC, and purchase of these components in large quantities helps to create a hardware server products cheaper. Michael Dell said that in terms of costs, this approach provides significant advantages.

Dell primarily creates its servers based on microprocessors from companies such as Intel and AMD. The company is actively developing corporate markets, creating a package of proposals in areas such as software, hardware, networks and services, but from Dell, according to her manager, has no plans to end business PC.

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Known for its photographic equipment, Olympus Japan is going through hard times, its operating profit for the year ended last March, has fallen by 41% compared with the previous year. If the medical equipment continues to be profitable, then the activity of the Digital Camera resulted in nearly $ 200 million loss.

To improve the situation in April of this year as executive director and the president appointed Michael Woodford (Michael Woodford), which 30 years he worked in the company and has successfully conducted a cost reduction of European division.

He became one of a handful of top executives of Japanese companies, non-Japanese nationality.

To Mr Woodford had high hopes foreign investors, who believed that he could reform the company and return it to the path of development.

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During his speech, the head of Microsoft Steve Ballmer (Steve Ballmer) on the importance of the annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco with a speech about the future achievements of the corporation was asked to compare the attractiveness of smartphones based on Windows Phone with devices running Google Android.

What is always optimistic and is known for his expressive CEO said: “When you use your phone Windows, you need not be a scientist in the computer field, as is the case with phones Android … I find it hard to get positive emotions when working with Android-phones.” It’s been said before a huge audience, a huge portion of which are Android-devices, without being scientists.

But in order not to bring suspicion on the path of development chosen Microsoft Windows Phone, he added: «Apple [iPhone] – a good contender, but a few other”.

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Founder and president Jen-Hsun Huang of NVIDIA Corporation (Jen-Hsun Huang) usually does not go on the answers, and this he demonstrated during an interview at the event AsiaD. In addition, he confirmed that plans for future products Tegra, also quite openly shared his thoughts on the future of Windows platform ARM. When asked Engadget editor Joanna Stern (Joanna Stern) he was a little confused said:

“For Microsoft, it is important not to position it as a PC. From the point of view the best scenario – I can not say that they are interested – I would first released Windows for ARM. This would help in understanding that this is not a PC.

Will yesterday’s Office to work on tomorrow’s Windows on ARM-PC? Will the new version of Office to work on tomorrow’s Windows on ARM-plates? Both issues relate to compatibility, and both questions say about Office. Implementation in practice [in the first and the second case] is quite different.

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Phil McKinney (Phil McKinney), technical director of PC units in the Hewlett-Packard, said Monday that he intends to leave the company after nearly 10 years of service in it. Reasons for the decision of the person responsible for strategic planning and development of HP in PCs is not known, but it joins a list of high-level management, which have recently considered the best to leave the company.

With this in his blog titled “Goodbye, HP», he wrote that his departure from the cases is not traditional. He does not plan to spend their days playing golf or sit around the house. Mr. McKinney said that he had too much enthusiasm, energy and ideas to go into the background, but he wants to retire to get the freedom to write, speak, lead, advise and teach, without looking at the limitations of the traditional corporate structure.

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On Friday, IBM announced the death of John Opel (John Opel), one of the most influential executives of the company for all its long history. Former Head of IBM was on the executive director from January 1981 to January 1985 and oversaw the launch of the first of the original IBM PC – Model 5150 – in August 1981.

His achievement lies in the fact that he supported the idea of ​​precaution home PC at a time when IBM was still known primarily for its mainframes. Mr. Opel also spodvig IBM’s significant investment in the company by Intel in 1984, which helped the latter to make its chips the basis of a PC.

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