Deployment

What’s New In Windows 8.1: Start Button, Search Changes, Resizable Apps

This morning, Microsoft detailed many of the new features we’re going to see in Windows 8.1 later this year. Those include the much-rumoured partial return of the classic Start button, changes to the way apps can be displayed and integration of Bing into the Search charm.

30 May 2013

Deployment

Lync And Skype Can Now Talk To Each Other

Microsoft has begun the process of integrating consumer-centric Skype with enterprise-friendly Lync. The first stage allows Lync and Skype users to share contacts and make calls and send messages to each other.

Deployment

Google Apps Admin App Now On Android

Following on from its recent web interface revamp, Google has launched an Android app for managing Google Apps accounts. Handy if you’re managing a large Apps installation. [Official Google Enterprise Blog]

29 May 2013

Deployment

O.T.R. Is A Private Workplace Chat App

Chrome: In the workplace, emails and chatrooms are often stored permanently, which isn’t helpful if you want to ask a colleague if they really had a sick day or not. O.T.R. (Off The Record) is a Chrome extension that creates non-permanent conversations, with messages vanishing after you read them.

27 May 2013

Deployment

Even Government Agencies Have BYOD Policies These Days

Government IT is often portrayed as slower to deploy and less flexible than other sectors. Yet as this infographic from BlinkMobile suggests, even in government circles, almost two-thirds of agencies have BYOD policies for mobile phones.

23 May 2013

Deployment

Use LinkedIn To Plan Enterprise Tech Rollouts

The most obvious application for LinkedIn is for hunting down new jobs or finding out what your old boss is up to, but it does have other possibilities. One apparent emerging trend: using LinkedIn to research whether new enterprise technology is actually reliable.

Deployment

Why I Kept Checking Work Email On Holidays

I recently enjoyed a week off work. Popular advice suggests that on such occasions you should set an appropriate out-of-office message, ignore your email and completely disconnect from work concerns. But that’s not what I did. Every morning I took time to go through my email (and go through my RSS feeds). This is why.

Deployment

Windows 8 Users Don’t Run Windows 8 Apps

Windows 8 apps are radically different in design and approach to their Windows predecessors, but Windows 8 can also run older apps. New usage figures suggest that most people running Windows 8 are taking full advantage of that, with more than half of them rarely running Windows 8-specific apps.

Deployment

Motivator: Spaghetti Is Great To Eat, But Horrendous To Manage

Many workplace server cabinets are a locked cupboard of shame, with cables overlapping in such a way nothing gets sorted. The same often applies to our overall infrastructure. It’s horrendous to deal with, and the feeling of relief when it gets sorted is tremendous.

16 May 2013

Deployment

What The Death Of Lotus 1-2-3 Teaches Us

This week, IBM announced that it was discontinuing support for Lotus 1-2-3, the product that was largely responsible for spreadsheets becoming a major computer application way back in the 1980s. Here are three lessons we can draw from that shutdown..

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