Dell, Microsoft team up to sell (Red) computers
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Dell Inc  and Microsoft Corp   are teaming up to release a Product Red computer that  donates up to $80 for every PC sold to buy and distribute  AIDS-fighting drugs in Africa.
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Microsoft is set to change the way that organisations handle upgrades. The company has teamed up with Dell and Vintela in an attempt to cut the people-hours that are spent on software support.
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Dell will sell special crimson-red versions of its XPS line of computers to raise money for AIDS treatment programs in Africa, the company confirmed Tuesday.Dell is working with Microsoft on the project, which is expected to be announced later this week during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, wrote Lionel Menchaca, digital media manager at Dell.Sales of the computers will benefit (Red), a project started by U2 singer Bono and Bobby Shriver, chairman of the Africa-focused charity Debt AIDS Trade Africa.Companies such as Motorola, Apple and the clothing retailer The Gap have released (Red) versions of their products. Proceeds from the sales go to The Global Fund, a health organization focusing on AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.Dell will offer the XPS M1530 and M1330 notebooks and the XPS One desktop under the (Red) product line. The PCs will run Microsoft&#39;s Vista Ultimate (Product) Red, according to Microsoft.The Global Fund will receive $50 for every laptop sold, enough money for four months of antiretroviral medication. Every desktop sold will net the fund $80, according to Microsoft.
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Dell has teamed up with cluster-management app-maker Platform Computing Inc. to create a small but powerful rack-mounted server complete with open-source cluster-management tools.
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Joint offering aims to deliver Dell hardware with Symantec software to protect Microsoft Exchange-based e-mail systems.
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Model 2.0 Michael Dell could prove that "Dell 2.0" is more than a marketing throwaway by buying rival Acer, according to a leading Wall Street analyst.â¦
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The computer maker will sell its PCs through Digital China, while Dell will try to target upscale consumers in the country.
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Philips might have started selling PCs again, but they are still outsourcing their internal PC needs. And Dell is the lucky one to get the deal worth around USD 700 millions!
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 26--Dell is planning to offer desktop computers and laptops with hardware designed to work with the Linux operating system, according to a statement posted Friday on the company's Web site.
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Dell Inc  said on Monday it  would sell its latest range of personal computers through  China's largest electronics retailer, Gome Group .
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Dell  and Microsoft   are teaming up to release a Product Red computer, donating up  to $80 for every one sold to fund AIDS-fighting drugs in  Africa.
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Dell said Monday that it will begin selling its lineup of computer products through business supply retailer Staples beginning November 11.
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Dell Inc. and America Online Inc. announced a partnership Monday to provide 5,000 low-income students with free refurbished personal computers and a year's worth of Internet access.
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Dell and Microsoft are working together to integrate their systems management applications to allow customers to update server hardware and software with a single tool.
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(InfoWorld) - Dell reached for a larger share of the small business market Tuesday, launching the "Vostro" brand of notebook and desktop PCs designed to simplify tech support, an area that has attracted complaints and lawsuits for Dell in recent months. To make Vostro PCs easier to use, Dell will ship them without any "trialware," Dell's term for the unwanted software applications that many PC manufacturers load on new computers in the factory in exchange for payments from the software vendors. In June,Â Dell agreed to let customers opt out of those programs after customers complained about that "bloatware" on a company blog. In another step intended to make Vostro PCs easier to use, Dell streamlined the setup process. A customer without any IT experience can get a Vostro PC up and running in six minutes and can connect it to the company network in only six steps, CEO Michael Dell said at a press conference in New York. And to make tech support easier for companies with fewer than 25 employees, Dell will offer support services, such as dedicating 6,500 of its customer service workers to Vostro products, offering 24-hour access to online tech support, and providing 10GB of online data storage for a year. The new computers include the Vostro 200 desktop with Intel Core 2 Duo processors and a choice between Microsoft's Windows XP or Vista operating systems. Vostro notebooks include the Vostro 1000 with dual-core AMD chips and Vostro 1400, 1500, and 1700, offering screen sizes of 14.1 inches, 15.4 inches, or 17 inches respectively. Dell is selling the models starting at $449 for the notebooks and starting at $319 for the desktop. The company also plans to add a high-performance desktop model to the family in late August. Although Dell has lost much of its market share to Hewlett-Packard in recent quarters, the company is playing to its strength by focusing on small business users, said one analyst who attended the press conference. "They still have a lot of brand equity in the small business market, and they're extending that with this offer," said Merle Sandler, senior research analyst at IDC. "With the services, they become a trusted advisor, and hopefully down the road they can turn that into a revenue stream." Michael Dell acknowledged that point in remarks to reporters, saying, "Small business is a rapidly growing market. It's also a place where there is enormous demand and need for technology." At the same time, he said, "Our customers all tell us, 'Make it simple'." Still, the company faces a challenge in repairing its reputation relative to customer service. In May, New York state's attorney generalÂ filed a lawsuit charging that Dell had used fraud and false advertisingÂ to increase profits on PC sales, applying high credit rates to computer purchases despite a promise of cheap financing. Indeed, Michael Dell stumbled over several of the questions posed by a crowd of small business owners at the press conference. He smiled at one user's story about experiencing Dell customer service problems after experimenting with competing PCs from Sony and Toshiba, and he winced at another customer's plea for Dell to keep offering Windows XP because of the "horror stories" she had heard about Vista. He also grew defensive after a customer asked whether Dell would offer a hundred-dollar laptop such as the XO computer designed for developing countries by a team at MIT led by Nicholas Negroponte. Dell pointed out that MIT had recently raised its price to $170 and that a better way to get cheap PCs in the hands of schoolchildren would be to re-use the 125 million PCs discarded each year by users in western nations. "We've sold more PCs in the U.S. than anyone else ... but that doesn't mean we're going to walk away from our responsibility. Our team has made big investments not only on the product side but in service and support," Dell said.
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Software maker Microsoft Corp. on  Friday said it and computer maker Dell Inc. will supply  software and services to the U.S. Air Force, in a deal valued  at more than $500 million over 6 years.
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Dell Inc., the world's second-largest computer maker, said on Thursday it will soon start selling its laptops and desktops at Asian retail chains and stores.