“Chrome is not going to replace Windows. A computer requires an operating system such as Windows, Apple’s OS X or Linux to make the machine work. It does, however, have the potential to do what Mr. Gates feared: make the choice of operating system less important.”
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To hear tell from AmTech analyst Shaw Wu, Apple’s “Let’s Rock†media event next week may be a bit less rockin' than the Mac faithful would like to believe. In a research note to clients Friday, Wu said the event could prove a letdown for anyone hoping to see new hardware beyond a fourth-generation iPod nano and a slimmer second-generation iPod touch. 
When Dell missed Wall Street’s profit expectations last week, the company’s leadership spoke little about its plans to improve profitability, saying only that there is “much more work to do.†Well, turns out that “much more work to do†is actually a euphemism for “we still have to sell off our factories to contract manufacturers.†
Not quite sure what to make of Microsoft's new ad campaign? Here's how Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Microsoft's Online Services & Windows Business Group, explained it to the company's employees Thursday evening in an all-hands memo: It's an "icebreaker." 
