Pat Gelsinger to leave Intel for EMC

In today's podcast: Pat Gelsinger to leave Intel for EMC; Microsoft-Yahoo deal to face DOJ investigation; and upgrading to Windows 7 can take 20 hours.

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Intel executive Pat Gelsinger is leaving after thirty years with the company in order to join EMC. The storage vendor will hire him as as president and chief operating officer for the company's information infrastructure products. Gelsinger is currently co-manager of Intel's core digital enterprise group, and has also held the positions of chief technology officer and research head at Intel.

The search advertising deal that Microsoft and Yahoo announced in July will face an in-depth antitrust review from the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ requested additional information about the deal last week, Microsoft said. Under the deal, Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo's search site, and Yahoo will sell premium search advertising services for both companies. Under the 10-year agreement, Microsoft will have an exclusive license to Yahoo's core search technologies as well as the ability to integrate them into Bing.

Taobao.com, the company known as "China's eBay" will aim for expansion abroad in the long term, but first it wants more foreign products sold on its platform in China, it said Saturday. The auction and retail site does not have a concrete plan for the overseas market but will likely target regions with cultural similarities to China first. Its parent company, Alibaba Group, wants 1 billion global users shopping on the site in 10 years. The target, more than one-seventh of the world's population, compares with Taobao's current average of up to 25 million shoppers each day. Taobao charges no transaction or item posting fees, but draws most of its revenue from advertising. It expects to break even this year.

Microsoft said Friday that some "in-place" upgrades from Windows Vista to the new Windows 7 may take some users over 20 hours to complete. The best that users can hope for is a 1 hour and 24 minute process, according to a member of the Windows deployment team, in a company blog posting. So-called "clean" installs, where the user overwrites an existing edition of Windows to end up with the OS, but no former data or applications, take less time: between 27 and 46 minutes. Microsoft conducted tests with three different profiles of user, and three different types of machine.

And those are the top stories from the IDG Global IT News Update, brought to you by the IDG News Service. I’m Peter Sayer in Paris. Join us again later for more news from the world of technology.