Channel Beat: How Apple Beat Microsoft During the Holiday Season

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Apple beat Microsoft in one battle of the ongoing mobility war: tablet sales during the 2015 holiday season.

According to IDC, Apple's iPad Pro outsold Microsoft's Surface Pro, even as the overall tablet market dropped more than 13 percent year-over-year.

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Apple leads the global tablet market with 24.5 percent share, although its own shipments have slid year-over-year.

Cisco beat analysts' predictions in its Q2, the networking giant posted $11.8 billion in revenue.

Cisco's security business grew 11 percent year-over-year, but sales from its switching business and data center business both declined.

CEO Chuck Robbins attributed those dips to a volatile market.

Symantec officially separated from storage company Veritas this week, more than a year after the initial announcement of the deal.

Partners cheered the sale of Veritas to private equity firm Carlyle Group and look forward to Symantec's strategy moving forward. The price tag came to $5.3 billion in after-tax proceeds.