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Microsoft: Silverlight Still ‘Very Important and Strategic’

Microsoft on Monday defended its Silverlight strategy, and stressed that the product is “very important and strategic” to the company. The comments, from Bob Muglia, president of the server and tools division at Microsoft, came after an interview he did with ZDNet in which he said Microsoft’s Silverlight strategy has shifted. Best Microsoft MCTS Training […]

Dell enhances PartnerDirect

Dell has added more sweeteners to its PartnerDirect channel programme across Europe to help partners to grab more market share. The vendor has updated its existing certification paths in enterprise architecture (EA) and SME, included a webcast infrastructure, and also added new face-to-face training programmes. The updates will give partners access to special pricing, support, […]

Vendor exams under fire

Microsoft and Novell’s certification schemes have been criticised for being too vendor-specific, and failing to test candidates’ experience. Jeremy Rawlings, education manger for Unisys, said vendor certification models focus too much on learning material parrot-fashion – rather than industry experience. “All certification proves is that you can pass an exam,” he said. Best Microsoft MCTS […]

Microsoft Office 365 Tackles the Cloud, Rivals Like Google

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Office 365, a solution that integrates Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online in an always up-to-date cloud service. Office 365 is being targeted to Microsoft’s sweet spot market; the SMB. In particular, to small businesses that may not have the resources (or interest) in maintaining on-premise Exchange and […]

Microsoft Starts Rolling Out Xbox.com Facelift

The Major has spoken. Major Nelson, the gamertag for Microsoft Xbox Live’s programming director Larry Hryb, announced “a major facelift” happening at Xbox.com today. Chief among these is a browser-based avatar editor where you can edit and preview your avatar before purchase. Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft MCITP Certification at Certkingdom.com But so far, […]

Microsoft Releases Office 2010

Microsoft on Tuesday took the beta tags off its latest office suite and formally unveiled Office 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010. The product is now available at 35,000 retail stores like Best Buy or online at Amazon.com, and can also be purchased pre-loaded on a variety of PCs. For more, see PCMag’s full review […]

Microsoft Windows 8 Coming in 2012?

Microsoft is generally tight-lipped about its operating system releases, but its efforts to stay mum on the topic were apparently undermined by one of its own last week. In an Oct. 22 blog post from Microsoft Netherlands, the writer noted: “Furthermore, Microsoft is on course for the next version of Windows. But it will take […]

Upcoming Support Transitions for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003

The past couple of months have been very busy for the Support Lifecycle team…  Unfortunately, due to other commitments, I haven’t had an opportunity to post to the blog in quite some time.  It’s been great to receive the friendly prodding for a new post from folks who had previously been regular readers of the […]

Is Microsoft really going to keep pricing for Custom Support flat in 2010?

We’ve received many questions regarding our recent announcement to keep Custom Support prices flat for the 2010 contract year.  In resposne to this we’ve compiled the following list of Frequently Asked Questions: Is Microsoft really going to keep pricing for Custom Support flat in 2010? The answer is YES….  Microsoft is aware that customers are […]

Ohh No! My business has grown, my computers and server are running out of storage space and our computer network is a mess!

Like most small businesses, your technology investments likely started small. You invested in a PC for yourself and a few other desktop computers for staff members. Perhaps you even have a small server. Most likely users keep his or her files on his PC; when someone needs a file they grab it with a USB […]

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