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Microsoft IT Showcase: How We Deployed Vista

Viral Tarpara — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:32:00 GMT

Hi everyone! I want to invite all of you out there to join Microsoft for a live webcast on March 27th, 2007 to learn how Microsoft deployed Vista within the company. It will give all attendees a great 300-level view of the process as well as an inside look at MSIT! Register here! The webcast will be presented by Chad Lewis, Microsoft IT Group Program Manager. For more information on our many IT showcases and whitepapers, go to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase

And now back to college basketball :)

Vista, Office 2007, BDD, Exchange, Infrastructure Protection Oh My!

Viral Tarpara — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:29:00 GMT

Test Windows Vista and 2007 Office system for your organization http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx Download the free Business Desktop Deployment 2007 solution to get all the deployment tools http://microsoft.com/desktopdeployment...(read more)

IBM Discovers the IT "Ark" with Open Desktop Platform

Viral Tarpara — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:23:00 GMT

I read this article and thought to myself, "Cool!" Then reality set in. I've been waiting for Apple to enter the enterprise space for a while, though, knowing full well that there are a plethora of manageabilty issues related to deploying and securing OS X in large numbers. Since Apple is probably a few month away from having a proper roadmap for enterprise, it seems IBM has done some legwork to help them out as they are supporting Apple in their new desktop platform. IBM's support of OS X shows that Apple is increasingly winning mindshare in the industry as a business operating system (see: Lotus Notes for OS X). They plan to roll out the platform internally to about 5% of the company which is admirable. I'll be waiting for IBM to release more information on how they plan to easily *cough* manage 3 different OSes with granular control using their "Open Client Offering." I'm sure IBM has their top people on it...top people