As budgets are locked in for 2012 it's time to aggressively expand <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/server.html">server</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a>, and for those who have been held back by cost, to consider <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/120511-cloud-companies.html">virtual desktops</a>.
The rapid adoption of the newest mobile devices -- especially the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a> <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-apple-ipad-resources.html">iPad</a> and the Google <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a>-based equivalents -- will be a huge disruptive force in enterprise <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> next year. Not only will there be pressure to decide how to protect and manage these devices, which are growing as malware targets, the complexity of this task is magnified many times over because companies are allowing employees to use their own personal <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a> and tablets for business purposes -- what's sometime called "bring your own device" (BYOD).
The mobile user interface is set for a range of changes in the next 12-24 months, creating new modes for users to interact with their devices, and with other devices nearby and network-based services.
Microsoft offered some details about outages that have plagued its hosted email customers in the Americas over the past week.
Microsoft is adding social networking services, including LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace, to its Outlook email client.
Microsoft says it will provide patent- and licence-free use rights to the format behind its Outlook Personal Folders opening e-mail, calendar, contacts and other information to a host of applications such as antimalware or cloud-based services.
In Google Apps bold march to become a credible collaboration and communication suite for businesses, it has encountered a frequent roadblock: Microsoft Outlook.
Waikato District Health Board looks set to install a new electronic messaging and file management system in the latter half of 2008.
Users, still angry about Windows Live OneCare’s habit of making email disappear, are slamming Microsoft’s support and claiming that its suggested fix doesn’t recover their messages.
Microsoft has acknowledged that a bug in its Windows Live OneCare security suite has been causing users' email to vanish from Outlook and Outlook Express.
Shaan Stevens' small Wellington-based economic and finance consultancy, Guinness Gallagher, has around 13 regular employees and operates partly from his large home in the capital. This became the demonstration site for the domestic and small-business launch of Vista in New Zealand.
EMC and Microsoft are stepping up their existing enterprise content management (ECM) relationship substantially to provide tighter integration between EMC’s Documentum ECM software and Microsoft’s Office, Outlook and SharePoint products.
Microsoft Exchange’s ability to work smoothly with Microsoft CRM and other Microsoft applications is behind the Ministry of Transport’s decision to move away from Lotus Notes, says Murray Wills, a consultant advising the ministry.
Next month, sometime rivals SAP and Microsoft will start shipping a jointly developed product that links SAP's business applications with Microsoft's Office desktop software.
For the first time in four years, tech sector jobs in Silicon Valley have edged upward, marking a welcome show of strength in the rough-and-tumble employment market.