Feb
28
News from CeBIT: Windows Intune Coming Soon to a PC Near You!
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Last July, we announced the availability of the second beta of Windows Intune, Microsoft’s cloud solution for PC management. In the fall, we told you that Windows Intune would be available in 2011. Today, I’m excited to announce that on March 23, Windows Intune will be available for purchase or a free 30–day trial in more than 35 countries.
In case you’re not familiar with Windows Intune, it is a comprehensive PC management solution designed to meet essential management needs for organizations of all types and sizes, from small and mid-sized businesses to large enterprises.
Windows Intune builds on our history of delivering cloud services at scale, including Hotmail and Windows Update, and leverages Microsoft’s cloud experience with Azure, Dynamics CRM Online and Office 365 to give our customers the best Windows experience possible by providing the tools IT professionals need to ensure their employees can be productive and secure from virtually anywhere. Windows Intune also includes upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise, so customers can standardize on a single version of Windows, making management of their PC environment easier and more efficient.
On March 23, we invite you to join us at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas or tune in to www.windowsintune.com (which should get updated later today) as we introduce the final version of Windows Intune and celebrate its commercial availability in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, United Kingdom and United States.
For now, we encourage you to sign up for Windows Intune notifications, where you can find information about the upcoming free 30 day trial. Partners, be sure to visit https://partner.microsoft.com/windowsintune to learn how you can add Windows Intune to your catalog of products and services.
We thank the thousands of beta users from around the world for their feedback, suggestions and ideas – we are excited to introduce the final version of Windows Intune to you. Beta testers currently using the second beta of Windows Intune can continue using the beta until April 18.
We’re very excited to release the final version of Windows Intune and look forward to hearing how Windows Intune is helping your business simplify PC management and amplify productivity and savings.
Feb
25
Happy Friday! What a better way to end the week than a new episode of Windows Phone Radio? This week, we welcome Aaron Woodman from the Windows Phone product management to talk about the recent trip to Mobile World Congress, the start of the first phone update and much more. Matt speaks to game news from the Xbox event in San Francisco, and I chat up the new HTC Arrive for Sprint. Tune in, stream or download in Zune or iTunes now!
Brian (@brianseitz)
Feb
25
SkyDrive keeps Office formatting beautifully intact in the cloud
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You may have heard about a plug-in announced yesterday by Google. Our friends on the Office Web Apps team have a great blog post that explains our approach to connecting Office to the cloud using SkyDrive, whether you use Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010 or Office for Mac. Once you upload your Office documents to SkyDrive, you can access them anywhere and share with anyone – without making unexpected changes to the formatting of your document.
Omar Shahine
Group Program Manager, Windows Live
