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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Apple, Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle… What have they got in common? But you haven't seen the inside of one of Microsoft's datacenters. Answer: A shared love of getting a bit on the side. No, not... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News That Windows 7 is more popular than Vista is no surprise - but just how much more love is Microsoft's latest OS getting? If the prediction is correct, it would mean Windows 7 would have been adopted by business more... [06 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News The company's CIO Paul Cheesbrough knows all about the challenges of moving to the cloud, after recently migrating 2,000 staff from Microsoft Outlook and Exchange to Google Apps Premier Edition and Google's email... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. Photo credit: Microsoft Photo credit: Microsoft Photo credit: Microsoft Photo credit: Microsoft... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News The UK will never create a software giant to rival the likes of Microsoft, Google or Oracle. Similarly Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at publisher Hachette Filipacchi, said: "Oracle and Microsoft are... [03 Nov 2009]
Microsoft to Office Accounting: Your number's up
News Microsoft announced on Friday it is to kill off its Office Accounting product line. Microsoft's Redmond campus. Photo credit: Microsoft) For more, see Microsoft killing... [02 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment Secondly, Microsoft has listened. Microsoft cannot change the basic underlying security model, and as such, the main approach to security in an XP environment has to be by layering on security products... [28 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News For the 'power user', tied to corporate standards, Microsoft Outlook is de facto," he said. Ian Auger, head of IT and communications at ITN, also sounded a note of caution: "Whilst not being afraid to use open source in... [28 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment With the recent launch of Microsoft's app store, Windows Marketplace for Mobiles, more will undoubtedly follow. Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Before being free to pursue its own destiny, JLR has to extract 18TB of email from Ford's Microsoft Exchange system. When faced with cloning an entire Microsoft Exchange environment across the whole... [26 Oct 2009]
Photos: Windows 7 - the latest PCs from Acer to Samsung
Photo The shot below shows how users can use the machine's touch interface to explore the world using Microsoft's Virtual Earth app. The official release of Windows 7 last week has seen the debut of a slew of hardware sporting... [26 Oct 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News But more needs to be done to help young software companies if the UK wants to create its own Google or Microsoft. Holway said the UK's failure to produce a global software giant like Microsoft or Oracle... [23 Oct 2009]
Mind the details with Windows 7
Comment For individuals this means running Microsoft's compatibility checker before starting an upgrade (and actually paying attention to what it might tell you). Gartner's Stephen Kleynhans has been happy with his initial... [23 Oct 2009]
ROI Case Study Google Apps TVR Communications
White Paper TVR Communications replace its existing Microsoft Exchange environment with Google Apps and improved collaboration, reducing IT costs and risk while increasing agility. An ROI study by Nucleus Research found that a... [22 Oct 2009]
Google Apps 2nd Wind ROI Case Study
White Paper Nucleus Research conducted an ROI study with 2nd Wind Exercise and found that this 300-user specialty retail company achieved an ROI of 837% and a one-month payback.nd Wind replaced its existing Microsoft Exchange... [22 Oct 2009]
