Join Mark Russinovich, Jeremy Chapman, Aaron Margosis and more for our Windows 7 Virtual Round Table on Application Compatibility, live on Thursday June 18th. Windows 7, is approaching fast and from the application standpoint is very similar to Windows Vista. We're going to examine Windows 7 application...

For the past few months, I have been traveling to many corners of the world visiting customers large and small.  Everywhere I went, IT pros gave me very positive reviews about their experience and satisfaction with Windows 7.  Many organizations are also evaluating optimized desktop technologies...

Our latest Virtual Roundtable on Application Compatibility was another great success. Thank you to all our viewers who tuned in live to watch it last week. Missed it? Well, here is a promo video of some of the highlights. Watch for details later this week here on where to view the full program. Video...

With the launch of App-V 4.6 happening today, I was able to catch up with Karri Alexion-Tiernan , Director of Product Management for App-V for a quick Q&A. Stephen: What problems can Microsoft application virtualization (App-V) solve for my business? Karri : App-V reduces the IT costs of packaging...

The Windows engineering team has just published the latest version of the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.6 to support customers who are looking at moving some or all of their Windows 7 PCs to 64-bit. After you collect your users’ software inventory on production 32- or 64-bit using ACT 5.6...

Until now there were a couple of ways to determine if your applications were compatible with Windows 7 – you can test everything, look them up one-by-one in the Windows Compatibility Center, or inventory your production machines using the Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 and synchronize your...

Last week we posted the promo teaser here on the Springboard Blog for the Virtual Roundtable on Application Compatibility. As of today, the rebroadcast is live and ready for you to view. If you missed the live broadcast, here’s your chance to hear Aaron Margosis, Paul Schnell; Darren Baker ...

Application compatibility is one of the most crucial factors when it comes to organizations being able to easily move from XP and IE 6 to Win 7 and IE 8/9. With so many of you beginning your migration to Windows 7 this year, it is more important than ever to be able to quickly identify and solve application...

Did our VRT wrap-up post wet your appetite for more? Looking to learn about virtualization as a application compatibility tool? No need to worry if you missed the live event as the is now available to stream or download here . Windows 7 Application Compatibility Part 2: Virtualization In part two of...

Are you looking to learn more about Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010 and other Microsoft products? Well the New Efficiency Virtual Launch Event is the perfect opportunity to do so. What will you find there? Steve Ballmer’s Keynote Replay Over 100 sessions presented by...

Greetings from Amsterdam! The Springboard Series tour kicked off yesterday to a packed house of IT pros yesterday. We spent the whole day talking about Windows7, Office 2010 and MDOP tips, tricks ,how-to’s around deployment, management, app compat and virtualization. Check out the video to hear what...

Don’t forget to join us this Thursday at 9 am PST for our live, Virtual Roundtable, “Is XP Good Enough? Really?” This event will address questions and concerns around migration costs, application compatibility, and organization readiness. The panel will also cover the role of virtualization in the desktop...

Thank you to all of you who tuned in and posted or sent in questions for our most recent roundtable and made it another huge success. We will be posting all the questions and answers in the next few days so keep an eye out. Missed the VRT? Here is the promo of what you can look forward to when the replay...

Thank you again for all of you who tuned in live for our most recent virtual roundtable. We had so many questions asked during the broadcast, we were unable to get to all of them so I am dedicating this blog post to the questions and to the answers provided by our product teams involved in the broadcast...

Date: Thursday, September 24 Time: 9:00am Pacific Time https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard Hear Mark Russinovich, Chris Jackson, Jeremy Chapman and our panel of experts chat about how virtualization tools can help you with application compatibility concerns whether you’re migrating from Windows...

I just wanted to take a moment and post a few quick reminders. The Windows 7 Beta expires on August 1 st . The Release Candidate download ends on August 20 th . You will still be able to get a product key beyond that date but, downloads will not be available. So if you have not downloaded the release...

“I found MDT 2010 done and ready to rock in an hour from a blank setup” “Tell the team THANK YOU FOR POWERSHELL ENABLING MDT2010 ! :)” “Microsoft has finally taken responsibility for making everything work, Kudos to Microsoft!” “MDT WDS is a kick ass solution...

Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable Windows 7 Application Compatibility Part 2: Virtualization Date: Thursday, September 24 Time: 9:00am Pacific Time https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard   Hear from a panel of experts how virtualization tools can help you with application compatibility concerns...