Dell Computer Corp. has no plans to develop Opteron servers "today," contradicting a French report that Dell officials said misquoted founder Michael Dell. French IT publication o1net quoted Micahel Dell as saying, "Quant à savoir si proposer à la fois des serveurs Intel et AMD au catalogue a un sens, la réponse est clairement oui," or "As for knowing whether to suggest offering, at the same time, servers from both Intel and AMD within our (product) catalog, the answer is clearly yes."
01net did not indicate whether Dell gave the interview in French or if his comments were translated. In any case, Dell spokeswoman Wendy Giever said that Dell's comments were apparently misquoted. Throughout its history, Dell has shipped products conaining only Intel processors, when virtually all of its competitors offer at least some PCs and/or servers containing chips from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Just as financial insiders pick apart Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan's comments for clues as to the agency's plans, so has the technology industry tried to determine when Dell might adopt AMD's chips. So far, however, Dell's stance remains unchanged.
News source: eWeek
01net did not indicate whether Dell gave the interview in French or if his comments were translated. In any case, Dell spokeswoman Wendy Giever said that Dell's comments were apparently misquoted. Throughout its history, Dell has shipped products conaining only Intel processors, when virtually all of its competitors offer at least some PCs and/or servers containing chips from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Just as financial insiders pick apart Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan's comments for clues as to the agency's plans, so has the technology industry tried to determine when Dell might adopt AMD's chips. So far, however, Dell's stance remains unchanged.
News source: eWeek
“The Tablet PC is now coming of age with new hardware on the market and an updated version of the operating system due this year,” said Paul Randle, Tablet PC product manager at Microsoft UK. “But to help customers get real value from the Tablet PC it’s essential that software applications reach the market. Microsoft is committed to working with ISVs to make sure this happens.”
The Tablet PC was launched worldwide in November 2002 with HP, Toshiba, Fujitsu-Siemens, Acer and RM launching models in the UK. Since then the market has grown with other PC manufacturers launching models, including new entrant to the EMEA marketplace, Motion Computing. In October 2003 Microsoft launched the Office System software range, which includes advanced support for the Tablet PC.
maybe this will never occur, no big deal for me BTW
Dell + AMD = Cheaper computer!
Doesn't sound like rocket science to me!
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