Microsoft: XP SP2 Adoption Lags Overseas
More than a year after Microsoft Corp. shipped Windows XP Service Pack 2 as a massive security-centric OS makeover, customer adoption internationally continues to lag at disappointing levels, according to a senior Redmond executive. Stuart McKee, Microsoft's U.S. National Technology Officer, said the overall install rate of XP SP2 was just shy of 70 percent, but in countries such as Spain and Korea, adoption of the service pack dips into the 50 percent range.
In Japan, Germany and France, the install rate is in the range of 75 percent, McKee said. During a keynote at the Security Summit East here, McKee said Microsoft has so far distributed more than 250 million copies of XP SP2 to provide a hardened shell around the operating system but the low upgrade levels remains a disappointment.
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16.12.2005 Microsoft Applauds Growing Windows Vista Adoption
Windows Vista sales have long jumped over the milestone of 180 million licenses offered in mid-2008 by Microsoft, and while failing to come out with a different figure, the Redmond giant revealed that the adoption rate of the latest Windows client is steadfast.
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26.8.2008 AMD beats Intel in Vista adoption
Speaking at the Bank of America Technology conference in San Francisco, Intel's Paul Otellini was asked about his take on Vista and whether it could drive demand.
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9.3.2007 Linux Adoption Slows Down Windows Vista Didn't Do It!
The adoption of the Linux open source operating system indicates a strong trend of slowing down to a scratching halt, but this is one scenario that the availability of Windows Vista failed to catalyze and to even impact, for that matter.
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6.9.2007 Will XP SP3 Slow Vistas Adoption?
Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry.
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21.2.2008 Did Microsoft's Security Focus Hurt Vista Adoption?
Microsoft's emphasis on improvements to security features in Windows Vista may have undermined business adoption of the OS, as many business and enterprise customers are still holding off on upgrading to the OS nearly a year after its release to them.
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26.11.2007 XP SP3 vs. Vista SP1 Service Pack Adoption
Microsoft's decision to have both Windows XP and Windows Vista available concomitantly on the market was a move that inherently backfired against the company.
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22.8.2008 Microsoft releases free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter.
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12.4.2006 Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 in an enterprise environment. Availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds are built for enterprise-level monitoring. Both local and remote connectivity checks help ensure database availability.
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5.6.2006 Microsoft Pre-Release Software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - September CTP
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFX), is the new managed code programming model for Windows. It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, and the ability to support a wide range of business processes.
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24.9.2006 Podcasts: Microsoft IT Showcase: How Microsoft IT Architects and Configures DFS Replication
Edit: Something close to my heart! I sure hope the R2 changes to DFS are as good as they sound in all the marketing documents!
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25.2.2006 Microsoft Showcases Platform Advancements in the 2007 Microsoft Office System
Second annual Microsoft Office System Developers Conference highlights opportunity for custom solutions development utilizing innovations in the 2007 release.
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23.3.2006 Microsoft set to beta Microsoft Security Essentials June 23
Microsoft confirmed today that they plan to release a public beta of Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly codenamed Morro) on June 23.
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18.6.2009 Microsoft is 30 years old today! have a look at the Microsoft Timeline
It's hard to believe that Microsoft is already 30 years old. The company that made Redmond, Washington, a household name was actually founded in 1975 in another city by two young Seattle men, one of whom was a college dropout. From this inauspicious beginning came an equally improbable vision: A personal computer on every desk and in every home. Thirty years later, it seems so obvious. But at the time, when only a handful of people knew what a personal computer was, it was a great leap of faith and daring.
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Microsoft Windows Microsoft Application Verifier 3.2.0038
Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with normal application testing.
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26.7.2006 Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!
Microsoft doesn't want you to pirate their software, but if you must choose between illegally installing Windows or a competitor's operating system, Microsoft would prefer that you choose them.
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15.3.2007 Microsoft releases new Ultimate Extras - Microsoft Tinker
Microsoft has silently released 3 updates for Windows Ultimate users today.
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23.9.2008 Microsoft trademark reveals Microsoft Store logo
A fortnight ago, detailed plans of the long anticipated Microsoft Store were revealed in all its theoretical glory when Gizmodo published over 50 slides from a Powerpoint presentation prepared by the projects consultancy firm.
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5.8.2009 Microsoft Launches Microsoft TalentLab in The Netherlands
Demand for ICT specialists is growing; new portal site advertises job vacancies at Microsoft partners with guaranteed training.
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25.3.2007 Microsoft 4 Patas
Four different wallpapers with those that are considered men best friend. Besides that, icons and sounds give a special touch in this theme, that is already a success in those that love dogs.
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5.1.2006 What Microsoft has that Linux
Microsoft has seven "Microsoft Across America" trucks cruising the country, visiting Microsoft Partners at their request to show off the latest Windows wonders. At last count, there were exactly zero (0) "Linux Across America" trucks.
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15.8.2006 Microsoft isn't done with Vista yet
There is still more work to be done on Windows Vista, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on the day the company's highly-anticipated operating system is officially released to enterprise customers.
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2.12.2006 Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft?
I'm doing a short project on Microsoft and its impact on society.
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15.12.2006 A word with you, please, Microsoft
If Microsoft's 1976 was all about "hobbyists" and "Altair," then its buzzwords for 2006 were things such as "connected entertainment," "interoperability," "Zune," and "Windows Vista."
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2.1.2007 Microsofts IE 8.0: More than just vaporware
When I mentioned in a post yesterday that I had heard there was an alpha build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0 circulating inside Microsoft, some were skeptical.
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15.1.2007 Microsoft Feeds Plus
Microsoft Feeds Plus is an
Internet Explorer 7 add-on for Windows XP/2003/Vista that makes your feed reading experience easy and efficient. You can read your feeds in a combined view (aggregate feeds) and get pop-up notifications when there are new items to read.
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27.1.2007 Microsoft Wants Yahoo
Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!, asking the company to re-enter formal negotiations, The Post has learned.
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5.5.2007 Microsoft: Why the Silence about IE 8.0?
Two years ago, Microsoft used the Bill Gates keynote at its MIX conference as the launch pad for Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0, which shipped last year. However, this year at MIX07, news of the next IE version, which Microsoft has confirmed is in development, was not to be had.
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6.5.2007 Microsoft Seadragon
Seadragon is an incubation project resulting from the acquisition of Seadragon Software in February. Its aim is nothing less than to change the way we use screens, from wall-sized displays to mobile devices, so that visual information can be smoothly browsed regardless of the amount of data involved or the bandwidth of the network.
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6.6.2007 Microsoft Got Hacked!
The official Microsoft U.K. Domain was attacked and defaced by a hacker identified as rEmOtEr. Microsoft confirmed that the hack has been successful. rEmOtEr altered a webpage in the Microsoft.co.uk domain with two images and multiple references to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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1.7.2007Announcing the Microsoft Forefront Technology Adoption Program
Chris Sfanos, Forefront TAP PM: Hello everyone!! With the successful release of Forefront Client Security v1, its time to focus our efforts on the
next release! The Forefront Technology Adoption Team (TAP) is excited to announce the launch of our new program. The next version of the Forefront
Client Security product will be bigger and better than the previous version, and so will the TAP, but we cant do it without your help.
This Microsoft Forefront Technology Adoption Program includes all products under the Forefront product line, not just the Forefront Client
Security product. These products are:
- Forefront Codename Stirling (To learn more about Stirling, check out the Stirling site.)
- Forefront Client Security
(FCS)
- Forefront Security for Exchange Server (FSE)
- Forefront Security for SharePoint (FSSP)
- Microsoft Internet Security and
Acceleration Server (ISA) integration with Stirling
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05.12.2007Open Source Database Adoption Upswing Continues
Open source database adoption will continue its growth, despite the fact that rip and replace situations with Oracle, IBM and Microsoft databases are
often few and far between.
The open source database market is continuing its upswing, and shows no signs of slowing down.
A market update by Forrester Research puts the value of the open source database market at $850 million, which includes software
licensing, technical support and services. By 2010, the authors of the report estimate that figure will jump to $1.2 billion as enterprises look to
open source databases to support Web 2.0 applications and other workloads.
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22.07.2008Report: Cloud computing poised for enterprise adoption
Gartner has named cloud computing, green IT and social-computing platforms among technologies that are poised to reach broad enterprise adoption in
the next two to five years.
The report "Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008" by Gartner Vice President and Fellow Jackie
Fenn and other analysts, also cited video telepresence, which utilizes high-end videoconferencing systems to provide remote conference participants
with the feeling that they are in the same room, and microblogging popularized by the Internet application Twitter as being on the brink of widespread
adoption among enterprises.
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12.08.2008Document Formats Survey Shows Growing Interest in XML-Based Standards
IT managers at large organizations are increasingly interested in employing XML-based standards, including Open XML, among their document standards,
according to a study of U.S. and European organizations commissioned by Microsoft Corp. The results of the survey, which polled 200 government and
private-sector organizations to better understand which factors drive adoption of open document standards, are available in an IDC white paper.
Survey respondents included key influencers as well as those charged with supporting document standards in 200 organizations (100 in
the U.S. and 100 in Europe). Fifty organizations with more than 250 employees were selected from the public sector, another 50 from the commercial
sector.
Functional approaches to standards adoption were evident in the survey results, with the majority of respondents citing
interoperability between productivity tools, long-term archiving, and ease of transition from an existing base of documents to a new standard as the
primary criteria used to evaluate organizationwide adoption of a given standard...
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27.08.2007Will XP SP3 Slow Vista`s Adoption?
Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry. The upcoming
release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 will further slow the rate of business adoption of Windows Vista by extending the life of the older operating
system, some analysts say.
Microsoft quietly released Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 to the masses Feb. 19. But the company
finds itself in a Catch-22, given its need to provide comprehensive security to protect its large installed base of business customers still running
XP while, at the same time, encouraging those customers to upgrade to the new Vista operating system. But the more secure, stable and reliable XP is,
the less reason they have to upgrade in a hurry.
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21.02.2008Will XP SP3 Slow Vista's Adoption?
Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry.
The upcoming release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 will further slow the rate of business adoption of Windows Vista by extending the life of the
older operating system, some analysts say.
Microsoft
quietly released Windows XP
Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 to the masses Feb. 19. But the company finds itself in a Catch-22, given its need to provide comprehensive security
to protect its large installed base of business customers still running XP while, at the same time, encouraging those customers to upgrade to the new
Vista operating system.
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21.02.2008Microsoft Brings Software-Powered Videoconferencing to Desktops Everywhere
Today at VoiceCon Orlando 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced broad availability of its conferencing solutions and continued customer and partner
adoption of its unified communications platform. Partners are embracing the platform to provide interoperable conferencing solutions, and today
Polycom Inc. announced that it will make its videoconferencing systems work with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office
Communicator 2007. Microsoft also outlined continued customer adoption of its unified communications solutions and demonstrated some new technologies,
such as low-cost high-definition videoconferencing.
I am excited at the enthusiastic customer and partner response to our
unified communications launch, said Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president for the Unified Communications Group at Microsoft. In the last six
months, we have seen some amazing customer testimonials, triple-digit business growth and widespread adoption that are bringing the power of
face-to-face, high-quality videoconferencing out of the boardroom and to the broader organization.
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21.08.2007Vista: Victim of Enterprise Malaise
Joe Wilcox: Windows Vista probably deserves a break, but it won't be getting one from enterprises.
Majorwhat Microsoft would
callmilestones aren't driving enterprises to radically change their Vista adoption plans. Even I'm surprised. I expected the release of Windows
Vista Service Pack 1 or the end of Windows XP OEM sales to mean something for Vista adoption. Nope.
If Vista were a person, it
might have an insecurity complex from all the rejectionand for good reason. Not since Windows Me has a Microsoft operating system seen such cool
market reception. Based on a recent eWEEK survey of more than 400 IT decision makers, enterprises aren't lessening their resistance, even when there
is good reason.
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18.07.2008Economy driving uptick in Linux evaluation, adoption
Interest in Linux is accelerating because of the downturn in the economy, according to a study by IDC that was sponsored by Novell.
More than 72 percent of the 300 IT executives who responded to the survey said they are actively evaluating or have already decided to increase
adoption of Linux server in 2009. On the desktop, 68 percent say they are evaluating or have decided to increase adoption of the open source operating
system.
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17.03.2009Microsoft Early Adopters Programs - What's in it?
Many are familiar with the Microsoft Beta programs wherein users get access to pre-release products, such as Windows 7. But very little know the
different programs Microsoft adopts in testing these pre-release products. Through Microsoft Early Adopters Programs(EAP), Microsoft connects with
various customers and users, giving them access to their pre-release products and testing them. The EAP consists of three stages: Technical Adoption
Program(TAP) Ascend - Beta 1 Releases Touchdown - Beta 2 Releases Image Courtesy:MSDN Technical Adoption Program(TAP) The TAP is available to very
limited and select customers/partners by invitation only. The number of participants in the TAP would be very less and work closely with the Microsoft
employees. They have access to almost every pre-release product.
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02.01.2009Did Microsoft's Security Focus Hurt Vista Adoption?
Microsoft's emphasis on improvements to security features in Windows Vista may have undermined business adoption of the OS, as many business and
enterprise customers are still holding off on upgrading to the OS nearly a year after its release to them.
Microsoft spent a good deal of
time and money to ensure Vista's security after Windows XP and applications running on it proved susceptible to devastating worms like Blaster,
Slammer and MyDoom. Though Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 2 to remedy some vulnerabilities, the company decided that security would be a
top priority for the next major Windows release, said George Stathakopoulos, general manager of Microsoft's Response and Product Centers.
"The security part of Vista was talked about a lot because it was a primary concern all over the world," he said.
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26.11.2007Microsoft says Vista adoption is about 2% in enterprise
Microsoft's John Curran, head of the Windows Client Group, said that a survey by Computer Business Review found 2% of UK enterprises have upgraded to
Vista, is roughly where Microsoft pegs current adoption in the enterprise too.
Computer Business Review (CBRonline.com) found in
a survey of 300 senior decision-makers in the UK that 2% of enterprises had already upgraded their desktops to Windows Vista.
"Those numbers are consistent with how we would see it so far in our core markets like the US, UK, and so on," Curran said.
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01.02.2008Windows Vista adoption in the chemical industry - Eastman and PPG
This past week, we released Windows Vista adoption case studies for
Eastman Chemical and
PPG. The Eastman story focuses on the timing of
their refresh cycle and their evaluation of whether to stay on Windows XP or move to Vista. The Vista decision came from a number of factors,
not the least of which is getting better control and limiting administrator privileges to their corporate machines. As part of their
rollout plan, they did a small pilot to their North American IT group of 350 users in October, 2007, and then to the broader global IT group soon
after. After a successful pilot, they began deploying in February, 2008 and expect to be rolled out to most/all of its 10,000 users by August,
2008.
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09.07.200863% Of IT Depts Say Web 2.0 Will Impact Their Business
A new report from
Forrester Research, a company that has been closely following the adoption
of web 2.0 and social technologies by businesses, now says that their earlier predications about Web 2.0 in the enterprise may have been too timid.
Last year, they said that in 2008 I.T. shops would
start to take a leadership role in Web 2.0 adoption by business, but this latest report is
now debunking the conventional wisdom that I.T. is as skeptical as once thought.
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14.07.2008Need answers about Windows Vista? New Windows Client TechCenter Launches
Chris Flores: This year at TechEd we are launching the new unified Windows Client TechCenter. The new TechCenter is now the official new home to the
Springboard Series of online resources (
www.microsoft.com/springboard ) . This is a critical component of the Windows Vista
deployment and management story.
With Windows Vista we built a number of capabilities into the product itself, as well as number
of tools to prepare for implementation. The piece that's been missing is structured guidance along adoption path that helps IT Professionals learn
how new features and capabilities can assist common tasks and also how to pre-empt and address key challenges upfront... We're aiming to deliver this
final piece through the new Windows Client TechCenter, which shares candid best practices from real-world experiences. For instance, check out
Springboard Series articles such as
Five Windows Vista adoption "Gotchas" and how to get beyond them. The
new site offers a consolidated repository of resources across the adoption lifecycle, new troubleshooting zones and community components.
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10.06.2008Windows 7 Compatibility Issues May Mar Enterprise Adoption
eWEEK Labs' early tests of Windows 7 RC 1 show that the operating system installs and runs quickly and efficiently; is highly polished for this stage
of development; already supports a wide array of hardware; and is obviously rich with security, connectivity and usability features when compared with
either Windows Vista or XP. However, Microsoft's method for dealing with application compatibility--Windows XP Mode for Windows 7, or XPM--leaves
something to be desired.
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01.05.2009IBM, Sony, Philips form Linux
alliance
New organization could help
ease the adoption of Linux,
challenging Microsoft's
software
dominance.
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Three of the world's biggest
electronics companies -- IBM,
Sony and Philips -- have
joined forces with the two
largest Linux software
distributors to create a
company for sharing Linux
patents,
royalty-free.
The Open Invention Network
(OIN), as the new firm
unveiled Thursday is known,
could mark a breakthrough in
resolving how to protect
vendors and customers from
patent royalty disputes
resulting from freely shared
Linux code.
If
OIN's approach to managing
intellectual property wins
acceptance, it could overcome
a big stumbling block to wider
corporate adoption of Linux
and pose challenges for major
opponent Microsoft Corp.,
which has argued that relying
on "open source" software
poses legal risks. ..
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Novell CEO: We're Going to 'Attack' Vista
The 'alliance' between
Novell and Microsoft got a bit
weirder after Novell's CEO
indicated that he was pleased
by Vista's slow rate of
adoption, and will continue to
battle the company directly in
the marketplace...
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Microsoft Offers Free Video Hosting
FROM MIX 07 In order to
spur adoption of its new
Silverlight platform for
developing rich Internet
applications, Microsoft is
offering up free video hosting
that falls under the
company's Windows Live
services brand...
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