Local Firms Zoom In on Windows Vista
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Forget the people lining up at Best Buy to get Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system. The real selling took place yesterday in a packed ballroom at the Washington Hilton, where more than 3,000 people from local companies and government agencies gathered to catch a glimpse of the new...
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VMware Inc., known for its virtual machine technology for servers and workstations, is turning its attention to the client space. The Palo Alto, Calif.
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When a small group crowds around a PC to work on a project, there&#039;s often considerable shuffling for a good view of the monitor and control of the mouse or keyboard.
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(InfoWorld) - At its partner conference this week MicrosoftÂ released new tools to help partners navigate two of the company's more complicated offerings: product licensing and the Windows Vista client OS. The licensing tool, called Microsoft LicenseWise, builds upon a previously released tool for Microsoft customers, Product License Advisor. Product License Advisor helps customers configure an IT environment and generate a report online that would tell them what licenses they would need and the cost, Mike Oldham, general manager for Microsoft's worldwide licensing and pricing, said in an interview at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver. LicenseWise picks up for Microsoft's business partners where that tool leaves off, he said. It allows a partner to access a quote a customer generated in Product License Advisor, build its own pricing into it, and then generate a proposal back to the customer for how much it would cost to license those products through the partner. Microsoft's complicated licensing schemes have long been a headache for partners and customers, but the company has made a concerted effort in the past several years to simplify the process, Oldham said. For instance, just two years ago, Microsoft had 74 licensing models customers could choose from; now they have nine, he said. More information about LicenseWise can be found on Microsoft's partner Web site. The new Vista tool also is an extension of software that is already available, called Windows Vista Hardware Assessment, said Mike Sievert, corporate vice president of the Windows business group. That application helps business users see how much effort it will take to migrate desktops in a company to Vista by testing the hardware and device-driver capability of PCs against the OS and issuing reports about those results The new tool, Windows Vista Business Value Assessment, allows partners to sit down with customers to not only assess how Vista will impact their network, but also figure out how to improve the TCO (total cost of ownership) of the installation, Sievert said. TCO is "front and center on the minds of our customers" when it comes to Vista, he said. Sievert acknowledged that business customers are still in the early stages of deploying the OS, which was released to business customers last November, so it's important Microsoft articulate how to upgrade to Vista in the most cost-effective way possible.
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Company hopes to attract users who will later upgrade to its small business software.
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Who needs a backdoor when users leave the Windows open? Security advances in Windows Vista are unlikely to frustrate cybercrime investigation, according to a leading computer forensics firm.â¦
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Vista expert Jonathan Hassell explains how you can now manage everything from LAN settings to network security modes to wireless capabilities to quality of service through familiar tools.
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Earlier this week, Microsoft Windows watcher Winbeta.org posted an e-mail from the software giant&#39;s Windows Driver Kit team that ended up launching a media feeding frenzy on news sites around the world. According to Microsoft&#39;s e-mail to the site, the release of a beta version of the first service pack for Vista was available for download.
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LicenseWise and Windows Vista Hardware Assessment help users navigate Microsoft offerings.
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Redmond sees Windows Vista as a big step up over XP for photographers, but it's adding more image-management options through Windows Live Photo Gallery.
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Microsoft is polishing Vista with a long-awaited service pack in hopes of greater adoption among businesses.
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Microsoft Corp.  launched Windows Vista for businesses on Thursday, unveiling the first major upgrade of its dominant operating system in five years and predicting that over 200 million people will run new Windows, Office or PC server software by the end of 2007.
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New virtual-machine technology can be used to test software patches and migrate aging Windows NT applications. By John Foley, Paula Rooney, CRN.
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Microsoft Corp. released tools to help companies deploy Windows Vista, acknowledging that there are deployment and application-compatibility pains enterprise IT managers face when updating business desktops to the new OS.
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If you're putting Vista on a PC yourself, you need to read this.
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Microsoft today made new versions of its dominant desktop programs, Windows and Office, available to business customers.
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Vista's still in its early days, which means plenty of adjustments for Redmond, its allies and competitors.