how long it will take to get all their XP desktops to Windows 7
before XP support runs out or before application vendors quit producing XP versions of upgrades or new software
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Microsoft "Geneva": Single Sign On & Online Services « Software Ruminations - 0 views
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Microsoft Federation Gateway is a cloud based identity service, that extends beyond your corporate domain out into the internet.
Summer Plans Revealed: More Innovation, Less Fish - 0 views
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Many companies become lax during summer hours, but some real innovators hunker down in the heat and create products that can make business easier in the future. One such company is Newton Software.
Top 5 Green IT Companies « Green Network Hardware - 0 views
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I'd like to point out some of the eco-friendly 'do-gooders' in the IT sector: information technology and computer hardware companies across the country that are helping to alleviate our global climate crisis. Some of these tech companies are building cutting edge green data centers, constructing next-generation energy smart grids and implementing hyper-efficient recycling programs.
The Word As We Knew It - 0 views
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The internet and it's unique ability to rapidly share information across the planet has created a sort of 'hot-bed' for the evolution of language. New phrases, words, acronyms and slangs have been given the ability to virally evolve and disseminate to new populations within a matter of days. Definitions are born, morph, and die based on the evolving collective consciousness of humanity.
UNBOUND Technologies Selects Recruiting Software from Newton for Applicant Tracking - 0 views
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UNBOUND's competitive drive to be the pioneer and market leader in social network intelligence has created exciting career opportunities for qualified candidates. Recruiting software from Newton Software allows UNBOUND to be organized, proactive and efficient so they can acquire the best talent easier and more consistently than less-prepared competitors.
Enterprise Server Solutions - A Quick Guide - 0 views
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Businesses across the country are searching for various ways to cut costs, while maintaining a robust, reliable and fast network infrastructure. Very often the key to success can be the research that goes into picking the correct data-center server solution brand. There are so many different solutions out there- how does a small business decide on one?
Windows 7 alluring, but XP is the migration X factor - Network World - 0 views
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....or even after MSFT pulls support of XP (after all the XP mode is XP SP3... and they will have to support that mode while W7 is operational)...
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Gartner predicts that more than half of the corporate Windows user-base is skipping Vista and aiming at Windows 7
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it doesn't mean they will avoid the application compatibility issues that gave Vista a black eye
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Windows 7 alluring, but XP is the migration X factor - Network World - 0 views
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Windows 7 will deliver on its promises
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...what promises? Rather than test W7 I am quite likely to test Ubuntu or the like... If I gotta change, I might as well move to a platform that will give me both flexibility and support on hardware I already own!... Comments?
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Windows 7 alluring, but XP is the migration X factor - Network World - 0 views
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Allred is in the process of testing Windows 7, which he says is faster, more stable and seems leaner than Vista.
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...but what is the compeling reason to upgrade besides the threat that MSFT will pull support?
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a Vista migration would have meant upgrading 60% of his hardware, something he was not prepared to do. With Windows 7 and its smaller footprint, the majority of his hardware is already compatible.
Windows 7 alluring, but XP is the migration X factor - Network World - 0 views
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Microsoft for its part told XP users last month (MAY) that if they are just starting to test Vista that they should switch to Windows 7.
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How does this make W7 a better choice than Vista?
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generally happy.
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maybe happy, but much poorer because of the need to update all their XP apps and retire all the older PCs that do not have the horsepower....
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With both Windows 7 (the host operating system) and XP (guest) running on a single machine, users will be forced to maintain and patch two operating systems per desktop.
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Windows 7 alluring, but XP is the migration X factor - Network World - 0 views
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"If you are on XP, Windows 7 isn't going to solve a lot of Vista's migration problems," says Brett Waldman, a research analyst for IDC. "Going from Vista to Windows 7 should be a much easier transition than XP to 7."
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...W7 is not the solution for XP migration path... it is almost like MSFT is bifurcating back to the old w98 // NT days... Why can't MSFT extend XP rather than repackage Vista??
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The predominant migration questions among those coming off XP are "when" and "how."
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"What we are saying is that by the end of 2012 you should be off XP," says Michael Silver, vice president and research director at Gartner.
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...off XP, but onto what??
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If you are on XP, Windows 7 isn't going to solve a lot of Vista's migration problems," says Brett Waldman, a research analyst for IDC. "Going from Vista to Windows 7 should be a much easier transition than XP to 7.
Upgrading your Network Hardware Infrastructure « The IT Hardware Corner - 0 views
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Just like you want to learn about a date's likes and dislikes to see if there is potential for long term compatibility, you also need to carefully plan the integration of new and updated network hardware into your older structures.
Top 5 Business Tools to Help Make Life Sane - 0 views
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Here is a quick list of 5 useful business tools to help outmaneuver your competition and avoid a headache in the process.
What would you do with 100 times the bandwidth? - 0 views
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what would you do with 20, or 100, times the bandwidth you currently have? This may become a possibility very soon, so I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of future applications that could exist with a much bigger pipe. Feel free to chirp in with your own ideas!
Corner Office - Meetings, Version 2.0, at Microsoft - Question - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Jim Collins’s book “Built to Last.”
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I wonder which of MSFT's OSes "born to last" would apply to??
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Microsoft's software pipeline set to burst - Network World - 0 views
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results could either be a perfect storm for Microsoft with major product releases carefully planned to coincide with an important milestone in the IT buyer's upgrade cycle, or a roar that falls on nearly deaf ears and severely deflated corporate wallets
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...or some architecturally designed combination of new and old. At some point increasing numbers of less sophisticated organizations will opt for a non-MSFT solution that better utilizes the organizational resources.
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Microsoft's software pipeline set to burst - Network World - 0 views
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[Microsoft] is being brutally honest
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...well, *more* honest maybe... but not 'brutally' honest.
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going to have to carefully plan out the upgrade because we don't have any budget to get another machine
Cisco Hardware to power 4G WiMax Networks - 0 views
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Finally something to really get 4G WiMax going- the addition of Cisco as a partner to build the network hardware. Get ready for full-fledged cell phone video conferencing.