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Windows Server 2003 end of support looms
Despite years of lead-time, many businesses had to scramble this year when Microsoft ended support for its incredibly popular Windows XP desktop operating system. The disruption caused by the end of support for Windows XP may be nothing compared with the disruption caused by the end of support for Windows Server 2003, slated for July 14, 2015. "When Microsoft ended support for Windows XP in April, about one quarter of U.S. businesses were still using the operating system, which caused a series of operational issues and potential security challenges," says David Mayer, practice director, Microsoft Solutions, at IT services firm Insight Enterprises.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Microsoft streamlines free Office for students deal
Microsoft yesterday made it easier for school and university students to obtain a free subscription to Office 365 by sidestepping institutional IT and going to the self-serve line.A year ago, the Redmond, Wash. technology company announced "Student Advantage," a program under which educational institutions that licensed Office Professional Plus 2013 or Office 365 ProPlus could also hand Office 365 ProPlus subscriptions to students, free of charge.The program was available to both K-12 and higher education.Office Professional Plus 2013 is traditionally-licensed software -- sometimes called a "perpetual license" because it can be used as long as one wants to stick with it -- while Office 365 ProPlus is a subscription service, part of Microsoft's broad effort to shift customers to a rent-not-buy model.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Microsoft, frustrated as ever with H-1B policy, considers options
WASHINGTON – A two-day conference on high-skilled immigration policy, which attracted researchers from the U.S. and Europe, offered Microsoft an opportunity to voice frustration over U.S. immigration policy.William Kamela, a senior federal policy lead at Microsoft, who detailed the stakes and options faced by his company, said the firm will apply for "roughly" 1,000 H-1B visas in next April's application period. "And we will get maybe 50% of those," assuming there is another visa lottery, he said. Lotteries are held once the overall 85,000 cap is exceeded.The company's argument for access to more high-skilled foreign workers seems unaffected by its recent layoffs, even if the number of H-1B workers it seeks next year is potentially smaller than in some previous years. In 2013, Microsoft, for instance, received approvalfor 1,048 H-1B visas.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Talk to my coworkers? Are you MAD? Ray Ozzie's latest wild idea: Talko
Ray Ozzie is back, baby. His new startup, Talko aims to get us talking on the phone again -- but not on phone calls. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers say, "Golly baby, I'm a lucky cuss." Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment.Christopher Mims keeps happy-talking: Perhaps nothing is more important than the means by which team members communicate with one another. [It's] not merely enabled but in some sense determined by the technology that carries them [and] are an important competitive advantage. … Talko [is] a unique, though not wholly original, combination of text messaging, phone calls, voice mails, and video and picture messaging [with] an unusual pedigree: One of its founders is Ray Ozzie, who old IT hands will remember as the inventor of Lotus Notes. … Imagine a messaging app that also allows you to leave voice memos for others, and...lets them immediately jump on a call with you, as well as everyone else who is part of the group. [It] archives everything, and it allows you to add hashtags to conversations (even tagging specific points in time). MORE Ryan Lawler talks about things he'd like to do: To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Former Microsoft software guru Ray Ozzie releases a mobile app -- and it's for the iPhone
Former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has just released a mobile app and service -- and it's not for Windows Phone, but instead the iPhone. They can't be pleased in Microsoft Land about this.The new service is called talko, and to a certain extent it's looking to kill conference calls and traditional phone meetings. With it, you make phone conversations more collaborative and interactive. You record the calls, and can then tag them, mark them, and share them with others. So, for example, you can tag particular points during the call that are especially important. Others can then search for those tags and jump right to that point in the call.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Smaller Windows PC makers nip at Apple's heels in customer satisfaction
Apple again topped rival computer makers in an annual customer satisfaction survey, the 10th year in a row its Macs have whipped Windows PCs. Read More
Can a cat video save Windows Phone?
Microsoft has tried just about everything to help Windows Phone succeed, to no avail. So it's now turning to the Internet tried-and-true: A cute cat video. Will that really help juice up market share or is it a sign of desperation?The video, which you can see below, hits all the buttons that lovers of cute cats like pushed: cats dressed in human costumes, cats performing human tasks, kittens acting like kittens, and all to a twee-sounding soundtrack that's more Apple than Microsoft. The cats spend plenty of time using the Lumia 930 Windows Phone. The video, titled "Catz using Lumia 930" was created by Mia Mullarkey, and won a social media contest Microsoft launched in order to promote the Lumia 930. It was filmed using the Lumia 930 camera. No surprise: The cats spend plenty of time using the Lumia 930 to text, view photos, and do most of the things that Microsoft hope that humans, not cats, will do.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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