Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
For IT organizations, the year ahead will not only be a time for rebuilding but also for innovation. Spending will remain restrained, and IT executives will continue to be asked to deliver more with less. But they are also receiving the go-ahead to take risks with projects that promise long-term improvements in the ability of…
Windows 7 launched roughly a year ago riding a wave of pent-up PC refresh demand and arriving just in time for the budding cloud craze. But now that companies have actually deployed Windows 7 and its much touted VDI, it’s time to evaluate actual performance against all the pre-sell promises. In our random poll of…
The outlook for IT spending on a global basis in 2010 isn’t looking quite as rosy as research firm Gartner had thought earlier this year. In a revised forecast issued Thursday, Gartner said it expects global IT spending to reach $3.350 trillion, an increase of 3.9 percent compared to 2009’s $3.225 trillion. But just last…
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,…
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…
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,…
Windows 7 may not be the seventh wonder of the world, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that if you attended the new operating system’s launch event Thursday morning in New York during which Microsoft execs talked up all manner of enhancements offered by the software. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer trotted out Windows 7 for…
Many businesses skipped the adoption of Windows Vista for just cause: they were happy with their stable versions of Windows XP. With Windows 7 now RTM (release to manufacturers) you will see a strong adoption by 2010 and here is why: green computing, mobile computing, and Windows XP mode. The Kermit Factor Under the hood,…