Microsoft Corp. today touted the experience of enterprises that have already started to deploy its coming operating system, Windows 7. The software maker also released a study it commissioned to Forrester Consulting, an arm of analyst firm Forrester Research Inc., that looks at the coming needs of large...

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010) provides a common console with the comprehensive tools and guidance needed to efficiently manage deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is the recommended process and toolset to automate desktop and server deployment...

“I would like to see Web applications achieve function and quality parity with desktop apps,” Helen J. Wang says. Wang is senior researcher in the Systems and Networking group at Microsoft Research Redmond , is working on ways to evolve the browser into an operating system that supports an increasingly...

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