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Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 4/1/2011

  • Artigo

Welcome to the Why Microsoft Weekly Roundup! The roundup is a collection of news items from around the web this week. Our goal is to share a variety of conversations about Microsoft products in the community…Enjoy!

Top 5 Picks for This Week:

Four in 10 Small Businesses Planning Cloud Computing, Says Microsoft
"The survey found that 39 percent of SMEs expect to be paying for one or more cloud services within three years, an increase of 34 percent from today (29 percent)"

Bing Ads Tweets to its News Page 
"When web surfers search Bing News for a story, tweets now show up in a scrolling column on the right side of the page under the heading "Public updates."

SharePoint Tries to Keep Up
"The collaboration tools discussed this month in Business Impact all have one thing in common. One way or another, they will run up against the market leader: Microsoft's SharePoint software, which is used by more than 100 million people around the world."

Microsoft Helping Break Ground on Cloud-Connected Homes in New Smart City
"The home of the future will be bedecked with smart sensors that send their data to the cloud so you can manage the house from afar--yes, this is a story we've heard before. But now Microsoft has joined a plan to build a smart city jammed with exactly these smart homes in Portugal."

How Fast Can a Company Deploy Windows 7?
"According to Wang Dong who is a Vice-Director of the Information Management Head Department at Tsingtao Brewery, and the sixth largest beer producer in the world, it takes “40 minutes to perform a Windows 7 Enterprise deployment.” That’s fast!"

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 03, 2011
    Four in ten small businesses apparently recognize the economy of scale in using cloud for core business-to-business workloads such as email, payroll and document sharing. That is good news for the economy overall as these business can focus on delivery of products and services they specialize in and maintaining specialized applications in-house.