Intel Touts Windows 7, Stimulus Spending For Tech Industry

By Damon Poeter, CRN
July 29, 2009 6:22 PM ET

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Public sector spending is on the rise around the world as governments labor to offset the effects of the global economic recession, and national stimulus projects will necessarily depend heavily on the high-tech industry to deliver "landmark" results for future generations, a top Intel executive said Wednesday.

"If you look at aggregate private and government sector spending in the world, there is going to be a lot more public sector spending in the next five years as a percentage of the overall than before," said Intel's Sean Maloney, speaking at the Santa Clara, Calif.-based microprocessor giant's Intel Technology Summit in San Francisco.

Maloney, opening a day of more technically oriented talks by other Intel executives, also touched on such subjects as Intel's product road map, the health of Moore's Law, the rise of mobile computing and the prospects for Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system.

Intel's chief sales and marketing officer said he believes the deployment of Windows 7 "will go faster" for Microsoft than its widely panned predecessor, Windows Vista.

This despite Maloney's admission that "business IT spending hasn't recovered" from last year's historic financial crash. Nor is the future for enterprise spending very clear -- corporations may still hold off on major office equipment refreshes in 2010 despite compelling, bottom-line reasons to purchase new computer products, he said.

Enter the public sector. The governments of leading nations around the globe are increasingly looking at the downturn as an opportunity for major public works projects with an eye toward "what legacy they're going to leave after the recession," Maloney said.

"There is an opportunity for us to leave landmark projects as a consequence of the economic troubles we're in. And those landmark projects will necessarily involve IT," he said.

Maloney pointed to eight areas where global stimulus spending is focused, each with core requirements for IT-driven efficiencies -- health care, broadband, manufacturing, energy supplies, transportation, e-government, education and construction.

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