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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
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To provide flexibility to developers building specialized devices, Microsoft offers different embeddable OSs and platforms. An embedded OS offers device developers the potential to build any device and to differentiate that device from others in the same category, at the cost of increased development and time to market.
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
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Recent licensing changes signal stronger Microsoft support for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology. VDI promises to reduce desktop management costs, improve flexibility for desktop access, and enhance security. However, realizing these benefits requires critical decisions about which users will use VDI, and what client hardware, server hardware, and virtualization architecture will be used to deliver it.
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Monday, 19 July 2010 |
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New versions of Office, SharePoint, Project, and Visio became available
for volume customers in May 2010. The new versions make significant
improvements for collaboration, and for business intelligence functions
such as reporting and data analysis, among other areas. However, many
new capabilities require coordinated upgrades of multiple products,
which can complicate evaluating and deploying the new versions.
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
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Expertise in Microsoft licensing requires, besides an extraordinary appetite for detail and fine print, knowing where the rules live. Even those who aren't licensing experts still need to live by the rules, and there is no single "Bible of Microsoft Licensing" that contains them all in a clear, navigable format.
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 |
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New features in Office 2010 improve document sharing with SharePoint 2010. However, organizations will have to upgrade current installations to the latest versions of Office and SharePoint to get all the new features.
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
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As with all OS updates, new and updated features in Windows Server 2008 R2 require testing to ensure compatibility with existing applications that will be migrated to the new OS.
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Friday, 13 November 2009 |
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Exchange Server 2010, available now as a release candidate with general
availability planned for Nov. 2009, adds new features to help
organizations archive data such as e-mail and voice mail messages,
calendar items, and contacts.
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Monday, 24 August 2009 |
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For past and future customers managing servers with one or two
processors, the changes are mostly price-neutral. However, some
customers licensing larger servers will see substantial price
increases, mostly in the form of rising future Software Assurance (SA)
payments.
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Monday, 17 August 2009 |
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Top priorities for FY'10 include containing costs, preserving cash, and
stopping the revenue slide in the Windows client business through more
aggressive pricing. Partners and customers may have a harder time
finding product information and presales support as Microsoft scales
back sales and marketing budgets.
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Monday, 06 July 2009 |
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The shift from perpetual licenses that require a one-time payment to subscription licenses that require an annual payment is a major goal for Microsoft because of the ongoing (and often larger) revenue that they generate. Like most services, Microsoft Online Services are purchased as annual subscriptions that license services, users of those services, and sometimes devices that use services.
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