Tag: Microsoft

  • iPad for business

    iPad for business

    Jessica Davis

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    iPad for business The iPad is not just for consumers, according to Apple, which includes a section about iPad for business at their new device’s web site, complete with recommendations and instructions for enterprise deployment. And while most apps are geared towards consumers, there are a few already targeted at the business user. Here are… Read more

  • Microsoft Calls it Quits on Intel Itanium Support

    Jeffrey Burt

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    Days after Intel and Advanced Micro Devices launched new high-end x86 chips that drive the architecture higher up the server chain, Microsoft officials announced they are ending support for Intel’s Itanium chip in their server software. In an April 2 post on the Windows Server blog, Dan Reger, a Microsoft senior technical product manager, said… Read more

  • Looking for a Hosted Microsoft Exchange Bargain? Use an iPad.

    Jessica Davis

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    Everybody talks about the Apple tax – the premium you pay to buy applications for the Mac platform. But now hosted Exchange customers who use Microsoft Windows clients will pay more than those who run Apple clients, including Apple’s new iPad tablet computer. That’s because hosted Microsoft Exchange e-mail provider Apptix is offering Exchange 2007-backed… Read more

  • HP Preps More Products for Microsoft Communications Server 14

    Chris Talbot

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    HP is building on a unified communications and collaboration partnership it announced in May 2009 with Microsoft by announcing the next batch of products in a continually growing line-up of Microsoft Communications Server-ready offerings. The new products, which will be released at about the same time Microsoft Communications Server launches this fall, reflect two categories… Read more

  • Microsoft Updates Windows XP Mode, Partners with Citrix

    Jessica Davis

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    Microsoft has opened up upgrades to its Windows 7 operating system to a whole host of new users by removing the hardware requirement for the use of Windows XP Mode, the technology that enables users to run older applications on the 64-bit operating system. "It’s a very good development to not require hardware virtualization support… Read more

  • More Users Plan Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Before SP1 Release

    Steve Wexler

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    New research from recent Dell acquisition Kace finds 87 percent of IT professionals surveyed plan to deploy Windows 7, up dramatically from a similar study done in April 2009. Of more significance to the channel, almost half of the 900 respondents plan to move to Windows 7 before the anticipated summer release of Service Pack… Read more