How to stop overpaying for Microsoft licensing

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	How to stop overpaying for Microsoft licensing Microsoft Enterprise Agreements (EA) have long been a favorite for both Microsoft and resellers. If you have more than 250 computers in your organization, chances are someone has proposed an EA to you at least once! While there are a lot of positives in the EA, there are a lot of drawbacks as well – make certain you understand these drawbacks before buying into the EA philosophy. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Polycom Win a 360º unified conference station It's a chance to win the Polycom® CX5000, featuring a 360 degree panoramic view. Easily add group video collaboration to Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Bring a whole new perspective to your meetings. Enter the sweepstakes today! In this Issue 'Food porn' at its best: Ex-Microsoft CTO publishes groundbreaking cookbook Microsoft pushes more Kinect-like user interfaces Researchers warn browser users over new SpyEye/ZeuS trojan Real ID: DHS national ID nightmare that won't die? Microsoft slates IE9 launch March 14 Microsoft warns of Windows Media video attacks on Patch Tuesday Implementing Microsoft Lync: Lessons learned killing PBX Microsoft says Windows Phone apps growing Can't buy shares in Facebook? Invest in LeBron James Microsoft's Bing taps into online coupon fever WEBCAST: IBM Solving the Top 4 Network Management Challenges Join us for this webinar, featuring Jim Frey, Research Director from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Heath Newburn, Program Director from IBM as they discuss Netcool's flexible solutions for a complex and dynamic IT environment. Learn More 'Food porn' at its best: Ex-Microsoft CTO publishes groundbreaking cookbook The $625 'Modernist Cuisine' cookbook from Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's first CTO, is laden with spectacular photography that captures cooking techniques and chemical reactions such as the Leidenfrost effect. Read More Microsoft pushes more Kinect-like user interfaces Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 ditched handheld controllers for gestures and sound, but natural user interfaces don't have to be restricted to video games. Read More Researchers warn browser users over new SpyEye/ZeuS trojan Security researchers have been nervously awaiting for new versions of SpyEye, a browser Trojan that targets online banking. Now one says it has found a new variant affecting Europe, but fully capable of infiltrating U.S. online banking users as well. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More Real ID: DHS national ID nightmare that won't die? Real ID, which would turn your drivers license into a national ID, is like a DHS nightmare that just won't go away. Read More Microsoft slates IE9 launch March 14 Microsoft today announced it would launch Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) on Monday, March 14. Read More Microsoft warns of Windows Media video attacks on Patch Tuesday Microsoft issued three security patches for Windows and Office today, including a critical bug fix for Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. The Windows Media flaw, if left unpatched, lets attackers target victims with malicious video files. Read More WHITE PAPER: Siemens Finding the Value in Unified Communications This paper examines the four stages of return companies can see from their UC investments: Lower communications costs are followed by lower operational costs, then better productivity, and finally a true competitive advantage. Read More Implementing Microsoft Lync: Lessons learned killing PBX When Marquette University started construction on three campus buildings a year and a half ago, the IT department saw it as a good time to deploy VoIP (Voice over IP) from the ground up. Read More Microsoft says Windows Phone apps growing While it sounds miniscule next to Apple's App Store and its more than 350,000 apps, the Windows Phone Marketplace now offers 9,000 apps and games and is growing by an average of 100 apps a day. Read More Can't buy shares in Facebook? Invest in LeBron James A new kind of stock market lets fans invest in LeBron James and Tom Brady rather than Facebook, Apple or Microsoft. Read More Microsoft's Bing taps into online coupon fever Microsoft is responding to the online coupon frenzy by adding results about special deals to its Bing search engine, both on its desktop and mobile versions. Read More
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