Should we teach Microsoft Products only in IT?  No.   Although Microsoft runs the IT arena, new IT students should be exposed to MAC and Linux. Our class grows more complicated every term.  Where we ‘touched’ lightly on Linux, we now install Ubuntu, OpenBSD, Solaris, RedHat and other linux operating systems.  Starting with Ubuntu as an ‘easy’

If you want a quick reference for customers or yourself, which seems to be updated as more products become supported under 2008 R2, go to the Microsoft website here. The most interesting aspect, at least to me, is that there looks to be upcoming support for Server 2008 R2 for OCS 2007 R2 and later versions, and as mentioned on ...

Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 31 October 2009 at 06:51:00 Historic mistakes from Redmond's workshops Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's...

... is the latest victim OUR list of dead Microsoft divisions or Microsoft products keeps growing at a pace of about two per month. It ... 2012, leaving literally dozens of users bereft of updates and another Microsoft initiative in the dust. For future reference, more coverage can be ... .P. MSN Direct: 2004-2012 With cancellations of products usually come staff redundancies. More large-scale layoffs are ...

... security loopholes, fixing the bugs, securing against vulnerabilities noticed in various Microsoft products. On the other hand, every week, there are at least three to four news reports emerging from ... in the beta version, you may not notice many bugs or problem areas in such products; and, even if some bugs are noticed on some rare occasions, they do not get that much negative publicity because of ...

... interviewed dozens of times, and have always marveled at the variety and creativity of reasons why Microsoft products don't work as advertised. Maybe the excuses are downloaded to ... bringing together lack of vision with worldclass unresponsiveness to the needs and wants of users. Sure, Microsoft is trying to get back in the saddle with Windows 7, but by now, I have no patience for relearning ...