Will Cloud Computing Be Getting More Affordable?

If you haven’t read it yet, check out Microsoft’s recent white paper on the economics of cloud computing. How do you reduce your IT infrastructure costs by 80%? Well Microsoft thinks that one day cloud could be that cost effective! Microsoft released a new white paper in November called The Economics of the Cloud which describes …

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Microsoft’s Replacement for BPOS: Microsoft Office 365

What Is Office365? Office365 is an integrated cloud solution for hosted Exchange email, hosted SharePoint, and hosted Lync. It is not, however, the next version of Microsoft Office. This service is an upgrade to Microsoft’s existing BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) cloud offering. In addition, this service offers several new packages which should be attractive …

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A Real IP Phone System "On The Cheap"

I’ve worked with many corporate phone systems over the years. They all had several things in common: lots of features, and a very high price. More than once have I seen companies continue to use a phone system which was a bad fit for them, simply because they had invested so much time and money …

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SP1 RC for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Released

Microsoft has released the Release Candidate (RC) of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Why is this so important, and why do I care? Within SP1 are two of my favorite feature updates: Dynamic Memory for Hyper-V, and the RemoteFX update for Remote Desktop …

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