Is Office 365 Right for Your Enterprise?

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	Is Office 365 Right for Your Enterprise? Company: Microsoft Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco The Right Unified Communications Solution The advantages of today's unified communications are numerous, and there are many choices among solutions. A Cisco white paper is available to help you make the right decision. The paper outlines ten differentiators—from mobile device support to social software—that you should consider before deciding on a unified communications upgrade. White Paper In this Issue Preston Gralla: Windows 8 sneak peek -- do tiles and ribbons mix? Photo could show Nokia's first Mango phone, the Nokia 703 Microsoft Windows 8: Here's What We Know So Far Microsoft Office 365 App Creates Mobile Cloud for Android, Windows Microsoft 'ribbonizes' Windows 8 file manager Preston Gralla: Microsoft takes off the kids glove in the battle for the cloud New Windows worm spreads by attacking weak passwords Cisco buys Microsoft Office collaboration company MS says its private cloud is far cheaper than VMware's RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. Preston Gralla: Windows 8 sneak peek -- do tiles and ribbons mix? Bits and pieces of the Windows 8 user interface have been revealed over the last several months, showing two very different directions for Microsoft's next operating system. One the one hand, it will include a tiled interface, similar to the one employed by Windows Phone 7. On the other, it will include a heavier use of the Ribbon. Can these interfaces coexist or will Windows 8 resemble the classic joke about a camel being a horse designed by committee?   Read More Photo could show Nokia's first Mango phone, the Nokia 703 A leaked photo purportedly showing Nokia's first smartphone using Mango, the latest version of the Windows Phone operating system, depicts the handset as a full touchscreen device with no physical buttons on the front. Read More Microsoft Windows 8: Here's What We Know So Far Details about Windows 8, Microsoft's newest operating system expected in 2012, have been leaking out thanks largely to Microsoft previews and a stream of blog posts on the company's Building Windows 8 blog. Read More Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft Office 365 is the company's answer to online productivity suites. A replacement for Microsoft's Business Online Professional Services, Office 365 includes online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, as well as Lync and SharePoint. Together, these comprehensive and powerful online office tools represent the best overall value you can find today. Read More App Creates Mobile Cloud for Android, Windows Wyse is introducing the concept of a personal cloud--a seamless connection between your mobile device and your PC--with the launch of the latest version of Wyse PocketCloud Pro for Android. The new PocketCloud Pro challenges file syncing and transfer services by providing drag and drop file sharing between Android mobile devices and Windows PCs. Read More WEBCAST: Cymphonix Strategies Behind Managing Internet Traffic At a time when the number of Internet-connected applications is exploding, now more than ever IT needs maximum visibility into each and everyone of these connections. Read More! Microsoft 'ribbonizes' Windows 8 file manager Microsoft Monday said it will "ribbonize" the file manager in next year's Windows 8, adding Explorer to the short list of integrated applications that already sport the interface in Windows 7. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft takes off the kids glove in the battle for the cloud Microsoft showed today just how serious it is about dominating cloud services, paying companies $150 per seat to switch to its cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and launching a cutting, tongue-in-cheek video ad targeting VMWare's virtualization tools. INSIDER (free registration requested)   Read More New Windows worm spreads by attacking weak passwords A new Windows worm is working its way through company networks by taking advantage of weak passwords, security researchers said over the weekend. Read More Cisco buys Microsoft Office collaboration company Cisco announced that it has acquired privately held Versly, a maker of collaboration software for Microsoft Office applications. Read More MS says its private cloud is far cheaper than VMware's Microsoft has always positioned Hyper-V to be a less expensive alternative to VMware. Now the software giant says that with VMware's new VRAM-based pricing, it calculates a private cloud built on Microsoft can cost up to $70,000 less than one built under VMware's licensing schemes. Read More
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