OfficeMax tackles New Zealand's e-waste challenge
Office supplies chain OfficeMax is launching a service to curb the amount of technology waste heading to landfill in New Zealand.
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Why Deloitte Digital launched in NZ
Deloitte is expanding digital capabilities at pace across New Zealand, driven by the unveiling of a specialist Kiwi division and an Auckland-based acquisition.
Are Kiwi CIOs in need of improved channel relations?
The low ratings and scathing comments of CIOs in New Zealand should ring alarm bells for vendors and channel partners.
Dell sweetens VMware tracking stock offer with higher price, board seat
Dell Technologies has raised its offer to buy back shares tied to its interest in VMware to $120 per share, sweetening the deal for shareholders.
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- iSANZ Awards honour standout Kiwi security leaders
- Microsoft is building an army of AI partners in NZ
- 45% of Kiwi businesses ‘unprepared’ for data breaches
- How does Accenture create vendor alliances?
- Google hears protesters, changes sexual harassment policies
- 70% of MSPs set to enter M&A activity
- Is BlackBerry about to buy Cylance for $1.5B?
- Sophos steers channel towards security services
- Deloitte Digital launches in NZ, targets enterprise
- Dimension Data CEO to head up combined NTT business
- ConnectWise pivots partners towards security services
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Reseller News launches alumnae breakfast for Women in ICT Awards
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Reseller News Innovation Awards 2018: meet the high-flying industry leaders
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Reseller News Innovation Awards 2018: meet the top performing partners
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Champagne Reception kicks off Reseller News Innovation Awards 2018
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Chasing innovation: how Kiwi partners can create a new customer agenda
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Kiwi channel comes together as After Hours hits Auckland
Features
Ballmer hammers home Microsoft's 'high-value' strategy in final letter to shareholders
In his last letter to shareholders, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hammered on the same themes he and other execs struck three weeks ago before Wall Street analysts.
Why Microsoft's next CEO will fail
Steve Ballmer isn't necessarily a bad CEO. After all, Microsoft's on strong financial footing. But Ballmer made enough bad product decisions - Zune, Kin, Vista and perhaps Surface - to suggest that Microsoft employees, swayed by a forced-ranking employee rating system, told him what he wanted to hear, not what he needed to hear. If that culture doesn't change, Ballmer's replacement will fare even worse than he did.
Why Bill Gates can't save Microsoft
CEO Ballmer and his predecessor shared a vision of how Microsoft could stay on top by focusing on Windows.
Windows 8 stains Ballmer's legacy
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer survived the flop that was Windows Vista, but he wasn't able to do the same after the disappointment of Windows 8.
Is Windows RT dead? Microsoft's partners pull out but Surface RT 2 is inbound
Is Windows RT dead? We investigate the past, present and future of Microsoft's cut-down mobile Windows 8 operating system.
Reviews
Windows 8.1: New version, same mess
Windows 8.1 follows Windows 8 in typical Microsoft "version 2.0" fashion, changing a bit of eye candy and dangling several worthwhile improvements -- but hardly solving the underlying problem. Touch-loving tablet users are still saddled with a touch-hostile Windows desktop, while point-and-clickers who live and breathe the Windows desktop still can't make Metro go away.
Windows 8.1 deep-dive review: Well, it's a start
Although the preview of Windows 8.1 fixes some of the problems users complained about in the previous version of the OS, is it enough? We take a close look at Microsoft's update.
