Microsoft Lifts Restrictions on Apps for Windows 7 Starter Edition

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June 2, 2009   Brought to you by Ziff Davis Enterprise On-the-Go News for IT Resellers, VARs and Tech Partners! From our knowledgeable and trusted editors comes the latest content for the Channel, now available on your handheld device. Visit mobile.channelinsider.com. • Microsoft Won't Limit Apps on Windows 7 Starter Edition • IT Bought by the Sip • Will Netbook Ubiquity Hurt or Help Major PC Vendors? • IT Outsourcing Firm CSC Launches Cloud Computing with Security Focus • Global Chip Sales Up 6.4 Percent in April • Fed Video on Cybersecurity States the Obvious Cisco Partners Ears Perked for Details on Servers, UC at Partner Summit When Cisco announced in March that it would move into the hardware space with a new server products partner tongues began wagging. Now, as the networking giant gets set to kick off its Cisco Partner Summit in Boston this week, the company will find partners with ears and eyes wide open to new technologies and solutions as they try to bust out of the down economy. READ MORE >> Microsoft's Grand ForeFront Plan Microsoft will begin releasing the next generation of its security suite, ForeFront: Code Name Stirling, at the end of the year. Doug Leland, general manager of Microsoft's Identity and Security Unit, discusses the advancements in ForeFront and Microsoft's vision for its security products. WATCH NOW >> Web 2.0 Insecurities In this Changing Channels podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the director of product marketing for Web and data security at Websense, David Meizlik, talks about the security opportunities for solution providers that result from the continued proliferation of Web 2.0 applications. LISTEN NOW >> Microsoft Won't Limit Apps on Windows 7 Starter Edition In a reversal, Microsoft says it won't limit the number of applications available at one time in the Starter edition of Windows 7. The original limit of three was intended to keep the OS friendly to netbooks and compel users to upgrade to full scale edition. READ MORE >> IT Bought by the Sip Hardware and software sales models are breaking down at an increasingly rapid rate. What could replace it is a hybrid model of on-premise hardware and cloud-based management that's bought and paid for by the use and not the license. READ MORE >> Will Netbook Ubiquity Hurt or Help Major PC Vendors? If netbooks popularity means products sold go into to a lower margin mix,then vendors will need to solidly managed that shift to ward off profit erosion. READ MORE >> IT Outsourcing Firm CSC Launches Cloud Computing with Security Focus IT consulting services giant CSC is launching a cloud computing initiative that enables IT organizations to outsource much of their computing needs. CSC is partnering with Cisco and its Unified Computing effort as well as with VMware and EMC to build the offering. Some services in the SAAS, platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service offering will go live this summer. READ MORE >> 10 Ways to Make Sure Mobile Workers Aren't Slacking The standard 9-5 day job is rare. We live our lives switched on and plugged in. This creates an expectation. People expect work to support a more fluid style of life. Now, the bad news: If you can't see it, monitor it, or measure it, how do you manage it and make sure your mobile workers are really working? DOWNLOAD NOW >> How to Prevent Data Loss with an Exchange Migration Most migrations can't be done over a single weekend -- many take several weeks or months. During that time, it's critical that messaging functionality be up and running without interruption, even when some user accounts are housed in Exchange Server 2007 and others remain in the source messaging platform. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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