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One of the growing trends on Twitter is to use the social networking site to share interesting news stories. It's not hard, with the health care debate still raging in the Twiterverse at least, to get goaded in to clicking links.
Zimbra was suppose to be Yahoo’s answer to Gmail (well kind of), but after reports surfaced that it plans to sell the email product along with a host over other offerings, one has to wonder what will be the future of Yahoo.
Final ASP is pleased to announce an expansion of its IT support services thanks to the launch of our YouTube Channel and support forums Website.
Every piece of great software has an equally great Easter egg, and Google is no different. Here are the top Easter eggs in Google’s lineup of products.
There’s been a lot said and written on the brilliance of Google, but I’d like to throw my own perspective in the mix.
Google may have executed one of the more brilliant schemes in the last five years, and I’m not talking about Google Wave or Google Voice or even Google Android.
Windows 7 is a hit, but like any new operating system, it takes some time to get used to all the new features. Here's a list of new short cuts that hopefully make things a little easier for you.
According to a Microsoft case study:
The University of Kentucky (UK) IT organization selected Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 to manage its large telephony infrastructure, then discovered that unified communications (UC) can also reduce costs and enhance communications. Although specific to UK, this Case Study provides a useful model for how other organizations can develop a practical UC strategy.
- Implementation of a UC strategy provides a foundation for efficiently growing, enhancing and managing all aspects of an enterprise communications infrastructure.
- The uniformity provided by OCS 2007 enabled the university to control and reduce communications costs, while improving personal productivity and fostering collaboration. An implementation doesn't necessitate the integration of OCS 2007 voice communications for all users, which diminishes the need to totally upgrade the time division multiplexing (TDM) platform.
- OCS 2007 audioconferencing costs significantly less than conferencing provided by service providers. When deployed with Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft's unified messaging (UM) solution was a cost-effective voice mail solution for the university.
During a Gartner Group Webinar, analysts said Windows business users should start to prepare for an upgrade to Windows 7 in the future.
Because Microsoft products are so entreched in the business world, users should be contemplating an upgrade in the future, Gartner said.
Although Windows 7 is more of a revamp of Vista, there are benifits to an upgrade. First of all, 59 percent of users never upgraded to Vista, according to a Garner poll, so some of the features included Vista can now be used in the more stable Windows 7.
There are also new features in Windows 7: AppLocker, BitLocker to Go, BrancheCache, better User Account Control settings, an updated user interface and support for HomeGroups are all included in the OS.
According to Gartner, businesses should plan for a 12 to 18 month test period for Windows 7 before implimenting the system across their network.
Microsoft bringing SharePoint, OneNote to mobile devices
Written by Trey HeathAccording to the Internets today, Microsoft may be looking to bring Sharepoint and OneNote to Office Mobile 2010.
If it's true, this is very exciting stuff.
The biggest securit update ever is coming from Microsoft on Oct. 13. Get ready for a massive dowloand.
Microsoft has said the fixes will fix 34 vulrabilities. Amoung these vulnrabilites is a FTP explotiation which has caused a lot of headaches in the IT world.
