Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Microsoft updated its Bing search client for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad on Tuesday. The upgraded client, Bing 1.2, adds combined status updates for users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts within Bing, according to a post on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing Community blog. “Now when you search for something using our Bing app, you’ll…
A new survey of the IT employment marketplace released this week indicates that some job listings and wages are beginning to return as the economy begins to recover. However, the survey, by Janco Associates, found that work opportunities and compensation are not rebounding across the board. Bigger, it turns out, is better. “Even though many…
IT organizations should get hustling on their Windows 7 rollout planning and testing and be off Windows XP by the end of 2012 due to third-party vendors abandoning the creaky old operating system at a rapid rate, according to IT research firm Gartner. While Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said it would support Windows XP through 2014,…
In what might be viewed as a victory for Microsoft and a loss for Google, the Kentucky Department of Education has signed up 700,000 students, faculty, and staff for free e-mail, instant messaging, and online storage running on the software giant’s cloud services. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) officials in a statement called the agreement “the largest…
Enterprise IT decision-makers who have been waiting to deploy Windows 7 until all the bugs are shaken out of the new operating system are already beginning to get off the fence, Tami Reller, CFO of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live division, told investors Wednesday. Now it’s time for Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) sales force to focus…
Microsoft executives have a long tradition of sending e-mails to CEOs and other technology influencers to explain how technology change is likely to impact the future — particularly when that change revolves around Microsoft’s in the Cloud technology. Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Server and Tools Business group, on Monday issued just such…
Microsoft on Wednesday officially launched Office 2010 after a three-year wait for the successor to its popular Office 2007 productivity suite. However, Office 2010 is only part of the equation that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) hopes will lure business buyers to adopt the new version. Enter SharePoint 2010, Microsoft’s premier collaboration and content management technology for…
Many businesses who thankfully skipped Vista are now considering upgrading their aging XP desktops to Windows 7. And while there are some crude tools from Microsoft to help with this transition, there are better choices from third-party vendors that can mass migrate desktops while preserving some of the existing user information. There are at least…
What a difference a year makes. In March 2009, a survey of more than 1,100 IT decision makers by market research firm Dimensional Research found that 82 percent of those surveyed planned to wait at least a year after Windows 7’s release before deploying Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) replacement for Windows Vista. Now, a year later,…
Just like the late winter sky outside the Paul G. Allen building on the campus of the University of Washington, Microsoft’s future is in the clouds–Cloud computing to be exact. “For the Cloud, we’re all in,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said to students in his first-ever speech on the campus that sits just across Lake…