With new OS, Microsoft will try to put Windows 8 era behind it

	Windows SOMETHING will be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users | What the WinHEC? Microsoft revives Windows engineering event
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	With new OS, Microsoft will try to put Windows 8 era behind it After spending the past two years in damage control mode over Windows 8, Microsoft will officially begin a new era for its OS on Tuesday, when it's expected to unveil a preview of Windows' next major version during an event focused on enterprise customers. After the success of Windows 7, Microsoft misread the market with Windows 8 and botched the product's user interface, leaving a trail of unhappy customers, especially in the consumer market. Among businesses, Microsoft encountered resistance to upgrade, as many CIOs clung to the stable Windows 7, and took a pass on Windows 8 and its subsequent revisions, afraid that the UI, optimized for touch-screen tablets, would confuse their users, lead them to revolt and affect productivity.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Enterprise Tech: Pick Your Cloud, Control Your Data Find out how new hybrid cloud architectures enable you to take advantage of public cloud resources from Amazon, Microsoft, and others while keeping your enterprise firmly in the driver's seat. You'll learn how you can benefit from the elastic compute power of public clouds and still maintain control over your company's data. View now>> In this Issue Windows SOMETHING will be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users What the WinHEC? Microsoft revives Windows engineering event Mac and Chromebook sales erode Windows PCs' retail share WHITE PAPER: VMware HP 6 Traditional Benefits of Virtualization It usually takes a "compelling event" before you consider expanding virtualization within your IT environment. Avoidance of new physical server purchases, an OS migration or a major software license renewal can all be triggers. Read Now Windows SOMETHING will be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users According to varied reports, the next version of Windows should be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users. Problem is, nobody is quite sure what to call the next version. Will it be known as Windows 9, Windows TH, Windows 365, or the version that made our Windows 8 headache go away?In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wait until tommorrow's not-so-secret . Filling in for our humble blogwatcher Richi Jennings, is a humbler Stephen Glasskeys.Juan Carlos Perez puts the past behind him: To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Accountable Media Meeting the Exploding Demand for New IT Services Fueled by the explosion of mobility, the broad acceptance of cloud and tidal volumes of new data sources, the unprecedented demand for new and more efficient IT services is taxing IT managers to the limit. Learn More What the WinHEC? Microsoft revives Windows engineering event Microsoft, which recently announced the consolidation of several of its conferences, is now going in the opposite direction and resurrecting WinHEC, which was last held in 2008. WinHEC, first held in the early 1990s, was an annual engineering conference aimed at Microsoft hardware partners, with the goal of helping them better integrate their devices with the company's operating system and other software. However, the new WinHEC will be different. For starters, it will not be a big annual event, but rather a series of smaller conferences and workshops held more frequently. The events will be tailored to the different parts of the world in which they will be held.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Mac and Chromebook sales erode Windows PCs' retail share Macs grabbed more than a quarter of all U.S. consumer personal computer sales at retail in the 10-week stretch between July 4 and Sept. 1. Read More
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