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HP CEO Mark Hurd told Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an e-mail last year that HP’s call centers were “being overrun” by customers who were having difficulties upgrading to Windows Vista, a detail that was revealed in the unsealing of a court filing in the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit.

In its latest volley in a tug-of-war between two tech giants, IBM said Monday that it will offer services free of charge to migrate HP server customers to its System z mainframes.

The effort, announced just as HP CEO Mark Hurd was to kick off his analyst meeting, is called Migration Factory.

HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit.

With the EDS purchase, HP’s services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees.

Now the integration begins.

HP CEO Mark Hurd was inevitably asked about the U.S. economy during the company’s earnings conference call and the message was clear: It’s hard to chart tech spending right now.

HP reported a strong second quarter due to sales abroad, but analysts spent a good chunk of time trying to read technology spending.

HP acquired EDS in a deal valued roughly at $12.8 billion. The move was outlined Tuesday morning amid a healthy dose of skepticism.

Here’s a memo from EDS CEO Ron Rittenmeyer, who will now report to HP CEO Mark Hurd.

Retiring eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman now joins ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina on John McCain’s campaign and fund-raising trail.

Hmm. Former and Soon-to-be former Empresses of Multi-Billion dollar dot-coms and powerful computer industry giants — are we seeing a pattern here?

In an exclusive interview following HP's stellar earnings report, Mark Hurd proves why he's the country's best big-company manager.

Long before you had Hillary versus Obama, you had Carly versus Hurd. (Strange how both women were commonly referred to by their first names - but let's leave that to another day.)

HP CEO: On a roll

Even before Hewlett Packard dumped her, I was on record arguing that ...

Last week I chatted with Ben Barnes, vice president and general manager of the HP’s Business Intelligence Group.

The former general manager of IBM’s Global Business Intelligence Solutions Division was hand-picked by HP CEO Mark Hurd to take an old friend–Teradata, the leader in enterprise data warehousing.