Tag: Microsoft

  • Google Faces Long Campaign to Win Enterprise Customers

    Google Faces Long Campaign to Win Enterprise Customers

    John Pallatto

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    Google is smart to play coy about whether its online business application bundle is aimed at cutting into Microsoft Office’s dominance on the enterprise desktop. It has a lot of work to do yet before an online suite like the newly introduced Google Apps Premier Edition can seriously challenge the solid position of Microsoft Office… Read more

  • Google Apps Premier Edition Takes Aim at the Enterprise

    Google Apps Premier Edition Takes Aim at the Enterprise

    John Pallatto

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    After months of testing, Google is ready to see whether businesses large and small are ready to pay to use its online suite of basic business applications, including spreadsheets, e-mail, word processing, calendars and instant messaging. Google, which has steadily transformed itself from a search engine pioneer into a data access, Internet advertising and business… Read more

  • Microsoft Rolls Out Six Vista Migration Tools

    Microsoft Rolls Out Six Vista Migration Tools

    Joe Wilcox

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    Microsoft announced Feb. 20 new tools for easing Windows Vista deployments. The tools come about two-and-a-half months after Microsoft released the new operating system to businesses. The tools—immediately available—let businesses assess hardware and software compatibility with Vista, better manage product licensing activation, and virtualize older Windows versions during Vista testing, deployment and transition processes. The… Read more

  • Microsoft Gives SAASy Advice

    Microsoft Gives SAASy Advice

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Microsoft has issued new architectural guidance for organizations looking to implement software as a service systems. On Feb. 8, Microsoft announced its new architectural guidance in the form of a sample application, said Tim O’Brien, director of platform strategy at Microsoft. The Microsoft sample SAAS application is known as LitwareHR, a fictitious human resources application… Read more

  • Credibility at the Forefront

    Credibility at the Forefront

    Larry Seltzer

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    There’s something different about the security market, and especially the anti-malware market. Most software markets tend to move towards consolidation, but competition is alive and well in anti-malware. Clearly the major players are concerned about Microsoft’s entry into the market with their consumer-oriented OneCare service and the corporate Forefront products. Big players in the corporate… Read more

  • MS Admits It Needed More ‘Intrinsic Security’; Launches Products

    MS Admits It Needed More ‘Intrinsic Security’; Launches Products

    Matt Hines

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    SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft executives Bill Gates and Craig Mundie kicked off the RSA Conference 2007 on Feb. 6 with a keynote presentation emphasizing the need for stronger online identity protection and IT systems access management. Speaking to attendees gathered here for the annual security conference—held at the Moscone Center from Feb. 5-10—the executives sought to highlight… Read more