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IT spending is falling dramatically around the world but in Australia many companies are defying the global trend and continuing to spend their hard earned cash on investment in IT infrastructure.

Keeping a lid on IT spending during the current economic crisis is understandable and prudent business practice, but a new report out today warns that companies don’t really have the option of holding off technology investment for another year, and questions how they intend to survive without it.

Mobile email use in the Asia pacific region is emerging as the growth market in the enterprise mobility space with a massive annual growth rate of 34% predicted over the next four years.

Microsoft’s sales of new software have taken a hefty hit from the economic downturn but the sheer size of the company’s existing share of the market, with its software installed on many millions of machines worldwide, has seen its revenues hold up well in a belt-tightening market.

There has been something of a storm in a teacup brewing over news that Microsoft will be pushing out automatic upgrades of IE8 to IE6 and IE7 users, but just how hard will it be pushing?