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RSS MicrosoftVista jilted for Windows 7 midway through upgrades
News Some businesses that are partway through upgrading to Windows Vista are asking to swap the OS for Windows 7, according to Microsoft. Speaking at the London launch of Windows 7 today John Curran, the... [22 Oct 2009]
Twitter puts real-time tweets in Google search
News The news follows an earlier announcement by Microsoft of a deal to index tweets in its own search engine Bing. Google has announced it will integrate real-time Twitter posts into search results. Details of how the... [22 Oct 2009]
Download a Free Trial of SmartDraw: Learn why SmartDraw is the ideal alternative to Visio
White Paper Integrated—works seamlessly with Microsoft Office®. SmartDraw's ease of use means it requires very little support, plus it costs much less than Microsoft Visio. SmartDraw's fundamentally different... [21 Oct 2009]
Five Reasons to Choose SmartDraw over Visio® for Your Organization
White Paper Looking for an alternative to Microsoft Visio®? Give the power to create diagrams, document processes, and build better presentations to all your users—not just those with the patience and technical skill to use Visio. [21 Oct 2009]
The Compelling Case for Conferencing
White Paper Organizations of all types and sizes are looking for ways to improve business outcomes while reducing costs and encouraging environmental sustainability. To help meet these goals, many organizations are turning to new software-based... [21 Oct 2009]
Twelve Ways to Reduce Costs with Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008
White Paper This white paper describes many ways in which organizations can use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to save time and money. Many organizations are finding themselves having to deal with difficult challenges in a tough economic... [21 Oct 2009]
Total Economic Impact Of SQL Server 2008 Upgrade
White Paper The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework for evaluating the potential financial impact on their organization of upgrading from a previous version of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008. [21 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News Quocirca's Longbottom said: "Microsoft advise to do a clean install to go from Windows XP to Windows 7. Governor believes Microsoft's sales will benefit from a thaw in corporate spending on IT, although... [21 Oct 2009]
Photos: Microsoft sweetens Aero for Windows 7
Photo Windows 7 is officially released tomorrow, here's a walkthrough of what the new OS will look like once it's installed. Introduced for Vista, the translucent Aero skin has been heavily developed and expanded in Windows 7. [21 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Windows 7
Cheat Sheet So what Vista foibles does Microsoft claim Windows 7 solves? It looks like the software behemoth is already putting Vista behind it: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has even stated that he doesn't mind if... [20 Oct 2009]
Windows 7 to trump Snow Leopard?
Comment This week, Microsoft launches Windows 7 and consigns Vista to a footnote in Windows history. In some ways, Apple has had it easy in the years since Microsoft unveiled its 'Big Wow' which turned out to be... [20 Oct 2009]
Microsoft is learning to share - but not soon enough?
Comment If Microsoft does go the acquisition route, integration could still take a while. What both Jive and Microsoft are aiming to do is important: bring together the best elements of social computing and... [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: Windows 7 - getting inside security
Photo Backing up your data has been a facet of system maintenance that Microsoft hasn't spent enough time on. Here's a look at the security features of Microsoft's latest OS. In Windows 7, troubleshooting... [20 Oct 2009]
Your organization's data is at risk--Protect it with Undelete 5!
White Paper Undelete even protects earlier "saved-over" versions of Microsoft Office files, allowing instant recovery--all with just a few clicks of the mouse. Protecting your organization's data is vital! Diskeeper's Undelete gives... [16 Oct 2009]
Comparing Research In Motion and Microsoft Mobile Solutions
White Paper This paper compares the Research In Motion BlackBerry solution (BlackBerry mobile devices and BlackBerry Enterprise Server) with the Microsoft® mobile solution (Microsoft Windows Mobile® and Microsoft... [15 Oct 2009]
