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October turned out to be an eventful month for the IT industry and, as ever, TechMarketView was called upon by national and trade media to give our usual pointed opinion on the events that have the potential to change the shape of the sector.
Arguably the most anticipated – and heavily previewed – of these events were the launch of Microsoft Windows 8 and of the Apple iPad mini, coupled with the ejection of Apple execs Scott Forstall and John Browett (see our UKHotViews comment here). On this latter event, TechMarketView chairman Richard Holway was once again quoted in The Times (see Apple’s new king Tim Cook deletes squabbling bosses), and a few days earlier on Windows 8 (see Microsoft unveils Windows 8, the latest radical overhaul of its operating system).
Expressing her opinions about Windows 8 to Channelweb was TechMarketView’s ESAS (Enterprise Software & Application Services) research director, Angela Eager (see Onlookers predict muted enterprise uptake of Windows 8). You can see more of Angela’s Windows 8 commentary on UKHotViews (see Windows 8: saviour or sinker?).
But Apple and Microsoft were not the only IT players to hit the headlines. Recovering UK-headquartered business process services firm Xchanging won back a key contract at BAE Systems from ‘the late’ Logica (see UKHotViews here) about which TechMarketView research director John O’Brien was interviewed by The Times (see Taking over Logica just got tougher). John was also quoted in Computerworld on Xchanging’s significant contract renewal at Lloyds of London (and see UKHotViews here).
Meanwhile, the news that Facebook EMEA exec Joanna Shields is to become CEO of London’s Tech City Investment Organisation (see UKHotViews here) garnered another quote from Richard Holway in Techworld (see Facebook facing executive brain drain?).
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Posted by HotViews Editor at '08:48'
