● Microsoft Still On Track To Cut Another 3,600 Jobs

Any hope that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has turned the corner and won’t need to make those deep job cuts after all has been snuffed out.

● Infosys fires 2,100

Pai is catching flak for his seeming ruthlessness. One blogger on the Indian IT-insider webite Techgoss, for example, wrote: "No other country has this system of publicly humiliating ex employees. No other industry in India follows such blatant heartlessness."

● Windows 7: 83% Of Businesses Won't Deploy Next Year

The open source Linux OS also could benefit from slow uptake of Windows 7 in the enterprise market, as could Google's Android OS -- which some computer makers are reportedly testing as a netbook platform. Fifty percent of those surveyed by Dimensional Research said they've considered switching to a non-Windows OS to avoid Vista or Windows 7

● Report: Most Businesses To Give Windows 7 Wide Birth

A new report indicates that, even though Windows 7 will be released in the near future, it may be quite some time before the average company decides to deploy the new operating system.

Via OpenBytes