Sunday, January 4, 2009

#145 - Happy New Years!

I believe the whole country is looking forward 2009. I know Microsoft is. They will cut off Windows XP on January 31 and they hope will finally start making money on that horrible operating system Windows Vista. They are working on the next operating system, but it won't be available till the end of 2009 at the earliest.

Most tech firms are hurting this New Years. Sales of everything but LCD TVs are down. PCs, Monitors, Printers you name it, its not selling well. Business is generally the driver on tech sales and business has put buying anything on hold. Maybe the Obama stimulus package will work to stimulate the economy. We certainly need stimulating.

So what will be new in 2009? I would guess that PC's will continue to get smaller, memory cheaper and hopefully the Internet will get faster. I think GPS's will appear more new cars and phones. More tech companies will go out of business or get bought. We are still pleased that we sell HP products. They will be around for the long haul. Their printer sales will support the weaker PC market through this downturn.

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