Windows 7 enterprise upgrades: The costs and the benefits

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	Windows 7 enterprise upgrades: The costs and the benefits A Forrester study concludes that the return on Windows 7 migrations will be well worth the investment. Meanwhile, Microsoft pushes application virtualization tools to motivate Windows 7 and Office 2010 fence-sitters. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! In this Issue Microsoft: Cloud revenue to hit in a couple years Microsoft out of 'the doghouse' on security, analyst says Google Chrome chips away at Microsoft IE Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back YouTube sets March 13 IE6 kill date File-sharing risk a company's responsibility to restrict Streamline the move to Windows 7 with Easy Transfer Microsoft sets app dev investment priorities Microsoft, Amazon strike patent licensing deal Virsto launches server/storage virtualization product VIRTUAL EVENT: IBM NWW Making the Planet Smarter Hear from technology leaders, clients and business partners on today's enterprise data management challenges and how leveraging IBM's data management portfolio can deliver better business outcomes, at lower cost, while providing capabilities that scale across enterprise applications, databases and platforms. Register Today! Microsoft: Cloud revenue to hit in a couple years Microsoft plans to invest heavily in its cloud platform but expects to see little revenue for two to three years, said Bob Muglia, the president of the server and tools business. Read More Microsoft out of 'the doghouse' on security, analyst says Microsoft's reputation for lax software security used to be so bad that one of the guys who runs it, Scott Charney (corporate vice president of the company's Trustworthy Computing initiative), said at last year's RSA Conference that friends laughed when he used the words "security" and "Microsoft" in the same sentence. Read More Google Chrome chips away at Microsoft IE Janco Associates' February 2010 Browser and Operating Systems Market Share report shows that Microsoft remains in the lead with Internet Explorer, but loses a bit of momentum that apparently Google Desktop and Chrome managed to acquire. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed WAN Optimization Can Multiply IT Efficiencies Data center consolidation, regulatory compliance and a more distributed environment are some of the IT initiatives making a comprehensive and robust disaster recovery plan more important than ever before. The Enterprise Strategy Group highlights trends in DR, the role of virtualization and the impact of WAN optimization. Learn more. Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back It can't be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft's chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill Gates' handpicked successor, yet depending on whom you ask, his tenure will either signal a bold new era for the company or mark the beginning of its terminal decline. Read More YouTube sets March 13 IE6 kill date Google's YouTube will drop support for Microsoft's nearly-nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 in just over two weeks, the popular video site has announced. Read More File-sharing risk a company's responsibility to restrict Robert Mullins: "I was surprised to see that 100 companies have to be told by the FTC that their networks were at risk because employees were using P2P services to access such trivial content as music and videos. Don't IT administrators have policies or restrictions in place prohibiting use of the company network for personal reasons? And don't the employees have work to do?" Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. Streamline the move to Windows 7 with Easy Transfer Upgrading users to a new operating system always seems to have its pitfalls, and Windows 7 is no exception. If you're migrating multiple users, you'll definitely need some tools to help automate the task. Fortunately, Microsoft has created a tool for the occasion, appropriately named Windows Easy Transfer. This simple tool migrates your users' profile information (desktop, libraries, e-mail configuration, program settings, etc) and other computer files and settings from their old Windows PC to a new one. Read More Microsoft sets app dev investment priorities Cloud, agile development, the Web, and others make Microsoft's to-do list. Read More Microsoft, Amazon strike patent licensing deal Amazon.com has agreed to pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum as part of a patent cross-licensing deal between the companies announced. Read More Virsto launches server/storage virtualization product Virsto emerged from stealth mode last week with the introduction of software for storage virtualization in Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Read More
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