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...same multiuse lobby, designed to encourage guests to socialize and kitted out with cool features like wi-fi, chairs that hang from the ceiling and a Nintendo Wii. Offering 135-to-200-room hotels that cost an average of $120 to $200 per night and an upcoming brand, XP, at the $95-to-$110-per-night level, NYLO opened its first hotel in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, and expects 50 more to open or be in contract by 2010, including one in Broomfield, Colo., for travelers visiting Colorado's tech corridor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Generation Y Hotel | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...decidedly chilly reception from the press, garnering first place in PCWorld magazine’s “15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007,” the Redmond-based software giant has responded by deciding to stop offering Vista’s popular predecessor, Windows Experience (XP), for sale in retail and other channels. This move is not only a poorly concealed ploy to boost flagging Vista sales, but is also a policy that will hurt Microsoft in the long...

Author: By Eugene Kim | Title: Don’t Pull the Plug | 3/16/2008 | See Source »

...spite of Vista’s well-publicized release in January 2007, consumer demand for Windows XP has been quite strong, and XP still retained a dominant 75 percent market share as of September 2007 . In fact, Dell, one of the largest American computer manufacturers, re-introduced Windows XP into the retail channel last April, because of high demand from customers. Despite this continued demand, on June 30, 2008 Windows XP will no longer be available in retail outlets; by February 2009, no one—not even custom personal computer builders—will be able to carry XP...

Author: By Eugene Kim | Title: Don’t Pull the Plug | 3/16/2008 | See Source »

...released this month, many of the kinks with the initial release should be ironed out . As such, Vista now has the potential to become a strong product. When Vista is ready to stand on its own, the market, not Microsoft, should decide when it has had enough of Windows XP...

Author: By Eugene Kim | Title: Don’t Pull the Plug | 3/16/2008 | See Source »

...unfairly used his company's position as the platform vendor. Since Microsoft is the only software company that knows everything about the Windows operating system, its competitors have no chance of developing a better word processor. In any case, I hate the awkward interface and design of Windows XP compared with the elegance and user-friendliness of Apple's operating system. Masatoshi Nishikawa, Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

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