If your business is still running Windows XP, now is the time to upgrade to a modern OS. In 2001, Windows XP was launched, and went on to become Microsoft’s most popular operating system of its time, aiding consumers and business users to be more productive and secure as high-speed Internet became...

December tends to be a time of reflection and planning for the year ahead. I know you’ve all experienced the consumerization of IT for quite some time, but the topic certainly heated up this year. With the vast array of PCs and devices available today, the proliferation of applications and an increasingly...

Nelson Mandela once said that “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Education is the core focus of any country’s national agenda to drive student achievement and global competitiveness. This week, we’ll participate in BETT, an education event taking place in London...

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2010 in Orlando, Florida was a good opportunity to reflect on the year since we released Windows 7 while meeting with some of the IT Pros using the product in their daily lives. This year, Gartner Symposium was one of the world’s largest annual gatherings of CIOs and senior IT...

Small businesses are the genesis of all large companies today. While it’s hard to believe, we’re a good example of this. Microsoft started with two employees – Bill Gates and Paul Allen and grew to more than 90,000 employees today, with 1.1 billion PC users worldwide. Key to this growth, Bill and Paul...

Clearly, the way we work has changed – we are increasingly mobile and want to stay connected anywhere, anytime. Many of us take our first conference call of the day from our car during the morning commute. We stay on top of urgent emails not only from our desk but also from the sidelines of the soccer...

Today at the Microsoft Management Summit , Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Management and Security Division, shared an early look at some of the updates and new features we’re working on for the next release of Windows Intune . Windows Intune is our cloud-based management solution...

As lead on the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) product management team, I’m often talking to customers about the business value they can reap by using any combination of the tools within MDOP. To provide a little more guidance on why they should be using MDOP, we sponsored an IDC white paper...

It’s been a few months since we released the latest version of Windows Intune . Today I’d like to share some updates on customers we’re seeing turn to Windows Intune, why they’re choosing it and how they’re using it in their organizations. On the Microsoft News Center today we announced some great new...

It’s been a very exciting several of months for us here at Microsoft, and for many of our customers and partners, sharing the excitement of Windows 7. Since its release to manufacturing in July, through this week at TechEd Europe , we’ve had a lot of Windows 7 and MDOP activities, including countless...

Wow, can you believe it’s already been four months since we launched Windows 7? I wish I could say we’ve all been on vacation, but we’ve actually used much of this time for in-depth conversations with our customers, partners and analysts to find out what they really think of Windows 7 and how it’s influencing...

A debate is currently underway in education. Should schools focus on cutting costs or should they invest in more technology access for the classroom and resource labs? Technology in schools helps students prepare for the 21st century workplace. For educators, technology can help them keep students engaged...

One year ago we released the first beta of Windows Intune, and I am thrilled to announce that the final version is now officially available for purchase or a free 30-day trial in 35 countries! Windows Intune is a cloud-based PC management and security solution that will help you manage and secure PCs...

For the last several months, we’ve been talking about the importance of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7. Much of the discussion has focused on the two year countdown for end of support for Windows XP on April 8, 2014 , however, we have also pointed out that Windows XP is over a decade old – two...

Today at TechEd Europe 2009, one of our Windows 7 enterprise customers, Petter Wersland, Lead Architect at Statoil , participated in a panel discussion with Stephen Elop , President of Microsoft’s Business Division as a part of the keynote presentation. We caught up with Petter Wersland just before this...

This week at TechEd, we announced that the next version of Windows Intune is officially available. In April at the Microsoft Management Summit, we shared many of the new features and functionality of this latest version, so today I wanted to talk about how customers are using Windows Intune’s cloud-based...

Today I have some very exciting news to share about a Windows 7 Enterprise customer – Samsung Electronics has completed deployment of Windows 7 Enterprise throughout their offices in South Korea. Samsung has about 150,000 employees worldwide and the majority are located in Korea. We thought other businesses...

Recently, we announced that Windows 7 has sold more than 350 million licenses since its release 18 months ago, which means customers – businesses of all sizes, along with consumers – are embracing Windows 7. We hear regularly from customers about successful deployments and the great return on investment...

Spir-IT is a government agency based in the Netherlands that provides IT support for the entire Dutch court system. The Dutch Judiciary is made up of 12,500 employees who work across 29 different locations and include all of the country’s district and appellate courts, the Supreme Court, and special...

A few weeks ago we announced the availability of Windows Intune in 35 countries, and it’s great to see partners and customers taking advantage of Windows Intune and the free 30-day trial . For those of you using the beta, we want to remind you that the beta period is coming to an end on April 18, 2011...

A few weeks ago, we announced that Windows Thin PC had been released to manufacturing, and today, I am excited to say that Windows Thin PC is now generally available to our Software Assurance customers for download from the Microsoft Volume Licensing site . Not a SA customer? Please see below for further...

Today, I’m excited to share two announcements: first, I’d like to welcome a new product to Microsoft’s Desktop Virtualization family – User Experience Virtualization (UE-V). And secondly, we’re announcing that our flagship application virtualization product is being updated to its next major version...

This week, the Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition 2010 (HIMSS) takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, where hundreds of educational exhibits will be on hand to showcase the latest in healthcare technology. While Microsoft is showcasing a variety of new solutions and health applications for improved collaboration...

Hello, I’m Olivia Riley Cornejo, and starting today I’ll be blogging about the experiences some of our commercial customers (large and small) are having in their Windows 7 deployments. Hopefully their stories will help answer questions you may be having about migrating to Windows 7 in your own environment...

As we’ve been saying for a while, we continue hearing feedback from our customers that they are excited to test and deploy Windows 7. Baker Tilly, an accountancy firm in the UK, has taken this to the next level and has already completed deploying Windows 7 across their infrastructure. I chatted with...