business

Microsoft is holding its official launch of its cloud-hosted application suite, known as Office 365, on June 28. CEO Steve Ballmer will be on hand at the New York launch event, according to an invitation I received. (click on the image above to enlarge) June 28 also may be the date when the...

Microsoft held its first major unveiling of what's in store with Windows 8 at the D9 conference this week. Windows 8 looks bold. It looks slick. It looks impressively innovative. But, it also looks like it will be a major battle to convince business users to embrace it. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft held its first major unveiling of what's in store with Windows 8 at the D9 conference this week. Windows 8 looks bold. It looks slick. It looks impressively innovative. But, it also looks like it will be a major battle to convince business users to embrace it. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft held its first major unveiling of what's in store with Windows 8 at the D9 conference this week. Windows 8 looks bold. It looks slick. It looks impressively innovative. But, it also looks like it will be a major battle to convince business users to embrace it. Link Removed

Windows 8 looks slick and impressive, but it is such a dramatic shift from the Windows we're used to that businesses may be reluctant to get on board. Link Removed

In anticipation for increased Windows 7 adoption among consumers and businesses this year, Lenovo recently launched Enhanced Experience 2.0 (EE2.0) for Windows 7. The second generation of the Windows 7 optimization and performance program is exclusive to Lenovo;s wide range of Idea and Think...

Google’s Form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Link Removed, contains an unexpected $500 million charge for the first quarter that wasn’t reported in the company’s quarterly results. The filing says the charge was taken this month, and applied to the quarter ended...

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it will acquire VoIP service Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. Microsoft will purchase the company from investor group Silver Lake, which—along with Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz Ventures, and the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)—acquired a majority stake in Skype...

For budgetary and other reasons, many companies chose to skip the Microsoft Windows Vista upgrade and are now actively preparing for Windows 7 instead. What is the best way to integrate Windows 7 and exploit the many new, business-critical features it has? Link Removed due to 404 Error

As sure as the sun rises in the East, every few months you're going to see some new laptops from leading PC maker HP. That time is here again, and the latest additions include new versions of the high-end Envy, the Netbook-size Mini, and even a few professional-level ProBooks and Elitebooks...

Laurent Bugion of Link Removed, Luigi Rosso of Archetype, and Ward Bell of IdeaBlade join John Papa at MIX11 to answer questions about Silverlight 5 from the live viewers of Channel 9 Live. The questions span a wide range of topics but these guys cover it all, from Luigi and his deep 3D...

IT organizations appear to be dragging their feet on migrating to Window 7, according to a recent poll by Unisys Corp. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Unisys, one of Microsoft's key integration partners, seemingly isn't happy about Windows 7's adoption rate in the enterprise. More...

Results from a Unisys Corporation online poll conducted in March indicate that enterprises continue to "wait it out" when it comes to migrating to the Microsoft Windows 7 operating environment -- to their potential detriment. More...

Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services-Federal product has Link Removed due to 404 Error from the federal government under the Federal Information Security Management Act, a bit of news that would have meant nothing to more than a handful of folks who follow the arcana of such things...

Sales of Microsoft's Windows 7 surge to new heights. Is your small business on board or on the fence? Link Removed

The former president and chairman of Sony, Norio Ohga, who was credited with developing the compact disc, has died aged 81, the company has said. Ohga, who led the company from 1982 to 1995, died of multiple organ failure in the Japanese capital, Tokyo. Sony's...

Hello This is related to wifi but not it per se. I could not find the exact prefix. Today I arrive at a hotel with an ethernet jack. I plan to plug the router into it then connect the router and laptop hoping to obtain a bit more security than wifi. The "advanced sharing settings" page settings...

The launch date for Dell’s 10-inch Windows 7 based tablet looks to slip until the fall according to industry analysts. Nobody knows why the 10-inch tablet won’t make it’s debut until at least September, but it’s certainly going to spell doom for Dell taking advantage of the back to school...

The PC maker's Windows 7-based 10-inch tablet, meant for business users, will likely not be available till September at the earliest, according to Forbes. Originally posted at The Digital Home Link Removed