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Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, launched in January 2007, has had a mixed reaction from pundits and potential customers and there is still a strong inclination among the company's user base to cling on to older iterations of Windows... [30 May 2008]
Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade
Case Study Leeds City Council has saved taxpayers' money and minimised disruption by using an automated software auditing tool to ease a major Microsoft Windows IT upgrade. The mammoth task of migrating the council's staff of more than 12,000 laptop and PC... [28 Mar 2008]
Rugby club scores with automated backup
Case Study It backs up 120GB of stored data from three Windows 2003 servers, including an Active Directory server, a Microsoft Exchange SQL server and a general file server. A world class UK rugby club has turned to an automatic back-up system after data... [21 Jan 2008]
Tesco.com takes stock with Windows Vista
Case Study Online shopping giant Tesco.com has migrated 2,000 desktops to Windows Vista with increased security and energy saving among the key reasons for the switch. Although the rest of Tesco group remains on Windows XP, Tesco.com was able to complete the... [31 May 2007]
Zoo charity discovers benefits of going beyond Outlook
Case Study The hardware and software audit revealed the organisation had 75 more PCs and 22 fewer Macs than previously thought and showed a number of systems were running the unsupported and potentially insecure Windows 95 operating system. [20 Jun 2006]
Newspaper cuts costs with mainframe migration
Case Study The publisher used Micro Focus and MSS International to help migrate from proprietary Unisys hardware and software, Cobol and a hierarchical database system to HP/Intel Xeon hardware running Microsoft Windows with Microsoft SQL Server. [27 Feb 2006]
Bank group cuts out software duplication
Case Study HBOS FS is also starting to upgrade to Windows XP and activesam will become part of the standard desktop and laptop build. She said: "We are currently upgrading our Microsoft platform and it was important that we used the opportunity to rationalise... [07 Nov 2005]
Security company puts BlackBerrys on patrol
Case Study But the Windows phones didn't fit the bill as, according to Melcer, "they were designed to attract you to use the web or download music". Once the company had decided to use smart phones, Microsoft devices were put under the microscope alongside... [19 Oct 2005]
Health trusts cut operating system and storage complexity
Case Study The trusts and GPs were running a mix of operating systems - Novell, flavours of Unix, Microsoft Windows NT4.0 and Windows 2000. But after deciding to go for a Windows environment across the board, the organisation also wanted to looked around for... [06 Sep 2005]
Coventry Uni picks Microsoft over Novell's Netware
Case Study The university is migrating from Novell Netware to Windows Active Directory and Exchange 2003, with assistance from Lynx Technology, which is providing the university's IT department with consulting and transition management. [18 Jul 2005]
Lloyd's Register chooses Microsoft over Linux
Case Study When risk management organisation Lloyd's Register started on an exercise to choose a single operating platform from Windows, Linux and Unix, it didn't expect to end up plumping for the Microsoft option. [04 Jul 2005]
Centrica unties top execs with wireless
Case Study The pilot used HP TC1100 tablet PCs running on Windows XP Tablet, eight HP 6340 iPAQs and Motorola MPX220 Windows Mobile smart phones. We ran project through our technology innovation programme and we worked with HP and Microsoft to co-fund and co... [22 Jun 2005]
Insurer tightens security with laptop encryption
Case Study Only employees who have the correct passwords for the encryption software can access Microsoft Windows on their laptop - otherwise, it keeps unauthorised people locked out. Insurance giant Swiss Re is encrypting the hard disks on 4,500 laptops in a... [16 Jun 2005]
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