Has the Unthinkable Happened?
After much soul-searching but finding no “compelling reason,” Intel of all people is not going to upgrade its 80,000 PCs to Vista except in a few places; XP is just fine, thank you, according to a piece on a New York Times blog that actually started in the Inquirer. That started people to wondering whether Intel, when it finally does upgrade, will go to the Vista-beholden Windows 7 or to Linux or the Mac, its newest hero. It also got other people to remembering that Intel exhibited the same resistance to XP when it was new. It took four years for XP to get 50% of the market.

IBM Makes Gartner Redo Its Sums
According to the Wall Street Journal, Gartner is reworking its Q1 server revenue numbers and will dethrone HP as he-who-made-the-most-money and substitute IBM. Gartner had given HP $4 billion to IBM’s $3.9 billion, the first time HP topped its New York rival. The Journal says Gartner isn’t changing its estimate of the number of machines sold. IDC had said HP and IBM tied.

NetSuite Hires CMO
NetSuite has hired David Downing as its chief marketing officer. He’s done turns at Oracle and SAP and joins Larry Ellison’s other company from Seagate Technology.

Dell Buys Dell
In a show of faith, Michael Dell has bought close to $100 million worth of Dell stock on the open market. Not counting options, he now owns 12.4% of the company. Guess he would like it to be worth more.

rPath Gets C Round
rPath, which converts standard applications into virtual appliances, has gotten $10 million in Series C venture funding from existing backers General Catalyst, North Bridge Venture Partners and the Wakefield Group.

Intel Confirms No Atom iPhones
Intel VP Pat Gelsinger has confirmed what seemed evident from Apple’s purchased of PA Semiconductor. Apple doesn’t intend to use the Intel Atom chip in the iPhone. He called it “disappointing.”

PDF Standardized
ISO sent around an e-mail saying PDF is now an ISO standard, ISO 32000-1, removed from Adobe’s further stewardship. ISO will publish the spec for the current 1.7 version developed by Adobe and update and develop future versions.

DOJ Gets First P2P Criminal Conviction
The Justice Department has delivered up the first criminal conviction in a P2P copyright infringement case as a result of what it calls Operation D-Elite, its nationwide federal crackdown on P2P networks using BitTorrent file distribution widgetry. Seems one Daniel Dove, 26, and his Elite Torrent.org uploaders pirated and unleashed 700 pre-released movies that were downloaded 1.1 million times along with “high-value” software, video games and music. Young Mr. Dove is now looking at doing 10 years in prison for conspiracy and felony copyright infringement. Sentencing is set for September 9.

Apple’s Bite Bigger
According to Net Applications’ number crunching, Apple has 7.94% of the desktop operating system market to Windows’ 90.89% and Linux’ 0.80%.

Google Open Sources ratproxy
Google has open sourced the charmingly styled ratproxy, a passive web application security assessment utility that it uses internally and describes as “transparently analyzing legitimate browser-driven interactions with a tested web property and automatically pinpoints, annotates, and prioritizes potential flaws or areas of concern.” It’s just supposed to highlight “interesting patterns in web applications.” Google says  “further analysis by a security professional is often required to interpret the results and their significance for the tested platform.”