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- Weyerhaeuser: A Microsoft Software Assurance Case Study
- Weyerhaeuser is an international forest products company that generated net sales of $22.7 billion in 2004. The chief architect at Weyerhaeuser leads a team responsible for the architecture of the company's core IT infrastructure, which includes the management of approximately 27,000 desktops and 3,000 servers across 700 locations worldwide. Weyerhaeuser's...
- Tags: Weyerhaeuser Co., Microsoft Corp., Software Assurance, International Data Group, Team Management, Management
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- Unified Communications Solution Helps Weyerhaeuser Optimize Collaboration
- Weyerhaeuser Company, a global forest products company, wanted more options for communicating internally and externally with customers in real time. With operations spanning multiple time zones, the company needed better tools for collaborating and sharing information. Weyerhaeuser deployed Microsoft Office unified communications products and services, which included Microsoft Office Live...
- Tags: Collaboration, Weyerhaeuser Co., Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
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- Weyerhaeuser Enhances Order-Entry System to Meet Challenges of Building Industry
- From 74 distribution facilities across North America, Weyerhaeuser Building Materials supplies retailers and construction companies with a range of wood products and the materials needed for creating buildings and other structures, such as nails, rebar, and plumbing components. To maintain its competitiveness, the Building Materials division wanted to improve the...
- Tags: Weyerhaeuser Co., Industry, Microsoft Corp., Construction, Retail, Business Structures, .Net, Middleware, Finance, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Weyerhaeuser Improves Processing Time by 50 Percent With Database Solution Upgrade
- To comply with a U.S. federal directive to prove that its pricing for lumber was fair, Weyerhaeuser Company needed a way to quickly gather and analyze information from various technology systems. The company's Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - based solution worked well, but its processing speed left little time for...
- Tags: Solution, Microsoft SQL Server, Weyerhaeuser Co., Microsoft Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Seinfeld becomes McCain
- You can see the first Seinfeld ad for Microsoft here. It aired last night. This is going to sound political, but it looked to me a lot like John McCain's speech from later in the same evening. That is, it was selling a myth. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Advertisement, Bill Gates, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Red Hat buys Qumranet, adds gasoline to the spreading VDI bonfire
- VDI, somewhat ironically, may also work well for market mover Microsoft as it seeks to slow the momentum to outright web-based and OSS/LAMP-supported applications and services for large businesses. Microsoft must realize that enterprises have had it with the high cost of maintaining and managing the traditional Windows OS in...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Server, SolidICE VDI, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
- Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security
- News items 2008-09-05
- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
- Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, Chrome, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Suzanne Tindal ZDNet Australia, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, Google
- News items 2008-09-05
- Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?
- The day after it launched the first ad in its $300 consumer-focused make-over campaign, Microsoft is going public with some of the other planned Windows-branding fixes it has in the pipeline. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Brand, PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Video: Google Apps adoption rates up
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun's OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Video, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?
- The long-awaited $300 million ad campaign that Microsoft launched to counter Apple's successful "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" campaign aired during the Thursday night kickoff to the NFL season. Did you see it? I missed it on TV but caught it on YouTube. I don't get...
- Tags: Advertisement, Mall, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Jerry Seinfeld, Apple Mac OS X, Productivity, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Google Chrome already beating Opera
- Maybe Google really does have something here -- in just two days, they have leapfrogged Opera in market share, and have their eyes set on bigger fish. I would have thought that Google's foray into the browser market would have taken a bit more time to develop, but it...
- Tags: Google Inc., Opera Software, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Microsoft Student Technology Day UK
- Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students,...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?
- During the NFL season opener on September 4, Microsoft aired the first of the ads that it paid agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky $300 million-plus to create to help make over the company's image. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft
- It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...
- Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA
- Microsoft launched its Windows Genuine Advantage WGA anti-piracy program in early summer 2006. Its first year was, to put it charitably, a disaster. An epic fail. A big fat F on the year's report card. Things didn't get much better in 2007, either, as a server failure and other outages...
- Tags: Report, Activation, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Product Key, Microsoft Corp., Forum, Product ID Number, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?
- As part of Microsoft's mission to insure that Windows 7 and Windows Live Wave 3 are joined at the hip, Microsoft is exorcising features that used to be part of Windows from the operating system by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Google Apps adoption rates up
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun’s OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Microsoft Office
- Videos 2008-09-04
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