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Microsoft Kinect SDK Offers Channel Opportunity
Microsoft is looking to bring motion capture and gesture capabilities to the business world via its Kinect platform. The company has released a software development kit (SDK) that enables the USB connectable device to be plugged into any Windows PC, allowing software developers to motion-enable their applications. The Kinect software development kit will give software…
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Microsoft Office 365, Hosted Productivity Suites Present Opportunities for Channel
Starting with its June 28th release, Microsoft s hosted productivity and collaboration suite, Office 365, is poised to make a big splash with U.S. small to medium-size businesses, which IT analytics firm AMI-Partners considers businesses with under 1,000 employees. Priced at only $6 per user per month, SMBs get all of the Office Suite applications…
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Cisco Enterprise Content Delivery System Enables Video Content Distribution
Communications and networking specialist Cisco announced the Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS), a set of video distribution products that provide a way to manage the video load on the wide area network (WAN) and is also designed to help control the cost of extending video applications across the organization. As a key video infrastructure component…
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Businesses Indecisive on Cloud Computing Benefits: Report
Nearly half of small business owners do not believe cloud computing will help reduce their IT costs, according to a June survey of 1,000 independent business owners by Newtek Business Services. Newtek’s Authority Market Sentiment Survey, a monthly window into the concerns of independent business owners, found that educating small independent business owners regarding the…
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10 Answers We Want About Windows 8 At Microsoft WPC
10 Answers We Want About Windows 8 At Microsoft WPC 1. The App StoreMicrosoft will reportedly feature an application marketplace in Windows 8. We’d like to see Microsoft provide details at WPC and show how it benefits channel partners. Considering Mac OS X Lion will support Apple’s Mac App Store, and that OS is launching…
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Microsoft Licensing: Why The Disconnect On Software and Cloud?
I’ve been thinking about Microsoft licensing a lot recently. Besides potentially giving me a headache, there’s a good reason for this. Microsoft has a lot of licensing programs. Open License, Enterprise Agreements, Service Provider Licensing Agreements, OEM, Retail, Select… there are a lot of different ways to buy Microsoft. There has been a considerable amount…
