“There are some steps that small business owners should take today that will help them tomorrow when it comes to understanding and deploying technology. It seems so obvious now. You think, why didn’t I do that then?”
“Microsoft has announced new server software that it said provides small and medium businesses with enterprise-quality capabilities while helping them to save money, increase productivity and grow their businesses.
While designed specifically for small and midsized companies, Windows Small Business Server 2008
(SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS 2008) include Microsoft’s high-end server technologies delivered in a way that smaller companies can make the most of them.”
“Lower costs and ease of use mean companies of any size can create their own intranets. Here’s how to get the most from this technology.
Seven years ago, INK, Inc., a pay-for-placement media relations firm, needed a way for its staff to quickly share information about potential opportunities for clients. E-mail was too awkward and restrictive, especially where images or video materials were concerned. The answer was for INK to create its own intranet.”
Microsoft Dynamics is committed to helping credit-approved customers gain access to capital and invest in their businesses even in uncertain times.
REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 13, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced 0 percent financing for 36 months for new, qualifying customers of Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM solutions. The limited time offer is available to Microsoft Dynamics customers who receive Microsoft Financing credit approval on all purchases of $20,000 (U.S.) up to $1 million (U.S.).
Solutions designed to help small and midsize businesses save money and compete in a global marketplace.
REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 12, 2008 — As part of Microsoft Corp.’s $6.5 billion annual investment in products, support programs and incentives for small and midsize businesses, the company today announced the general availability of Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS 2008). These solutions bring the power of Microsoft’s enterprise-class server technologies to small and midsize companies in a way that companies can best consume them. They are designed and priced to help customers save money and compete more successfully in the global marketplace.
Gazelle is a site that will help you dispose of old gadgets: Perhaps an old cell phone, maybe you bought a new digital camera and don’t know what to do with the old one, and old GPS, that sort of thing.
Find the Gazelle web site here
Find a very positive review from CNet here
The Wall Street Journal tech page had a good article explaining how Gazelle and other firms like them work – find it here
I’ll check out gazelle.com in the next few days and report back on what I find. I have more than enough old gizmos to use as a test bed to see if it all it is cracked up to be.
Microsoft showed an early preview release (think “pre-beat”) of Windows 7 last week.
It is looking more and more like this is really going to be the Vista that should have been shipped – cleaner, faster, smaller, and requires much less hardware to make it run.
Now, if true to Microsoft (or, as us nerd-types think of them, M$) and how they usually handle their operating systems, this will change. By the time it ships it will be bigger, bloated, more expensive, and way,way later than originally planned. But I hate to be cynical…
And I am one of those folks who uses Vista and I like it just fine – but it is a hog. I am able to give it the horsepower it needs, plus I use the 64-bit version, which uses the hardware in the most efficient manner. But there are plenty of compatibility issues with the 64-bit version, so you need a willingness to put up with that, which not everyone has.
And all that being said we are placing very little of Vista – either 32-bit or 64-bit – with our customers, due mostly to compatibility issues. If we’re able to just wait until windows 7, we likely will. Lots of corporate IT types are thinking that way right now, too.
Here are some previews of Windows 7:
Tim Gillen, Virtual IT Director
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