Thursday, July 5, 2012

Behind the $40 Windows 8 upgrade

Surprising winner in JavaScript speed wars: Metro IE10 | Microsoft's Endpoint Protection is worth the licensing pains

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Behind the $40 Windows 8 upgrade
While a $40 price tag doesn't exactly qualify as giving Windows away, it puts a big crimp in one of the main arguments for avoiding Windows 8. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Quest

Making the Leap to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Once you've broken through the layers of software licensing required for VDI, you may find that depending upon the solution you choose, you could wind up paying more per desktop VM than per traditional client. It's vitally important to run all of the numbers before you jump in. Understand the factors to consider. Read Now!

WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services

Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how

Surprising winner in JavaScript speed wars: Metro IE10
Though it's impossible to objectively measure Web browser "speed," a few JavaScript benchmark tests produced surprising results: Metro IE10 beat the pants off all competitors. Read More

Microsoft's Endpoint Protection is worth the licensing pains
The recently released SCCM 2012 has received rave reviews, but you may have missed the fact that Microsoft has slipped Endpoint Protection into the product as a paid add-on. Endpoint Protection is an antimalware product, plain and simple. Read More

Full upgrades to Windows 8 only from Windows 7
Microsoft will support full upgrades to Windows 8 only from the three-year old Windows 7, according to a report Thursday. Read More

Windows desktop destined for long slide to oblivion, says Gartner
Microsoft will deemphasize the Windows desktop in future releases of its operating system as usage of traditional Windows applications falls to just 10 percent of users' time by 2020. Read More



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