Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology.
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
Jens Meggers, vice president of engineering, Symantec said, "Microsoft has a really bad track record in security. Like OneCare, Security Essentials is a poor product." Microsoft's MSE team might be sharing high-fives on disturbing the competition to mock them.
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One special promotion is 'Simplify and Save', which offers savings of 15 percent for those who consolidate at least two existing license agreements into an Open Value agreement. Microsoft said the discount will run for the entire length of a three-year license deal.
Another offer is for between 15 percent and 25 percent off the price of the licence and the Software Assurance costs of running Exchange Server, Office Communications Server, SQL Server, Office SharePoint Server, Visual Studio, Office Project and other Microsoft software.It is a condition of some Microsoft licence agreements that companies take out schemes such as Microsoft Software Assurance in order to keep their software properly licensed, and therefore eligible for upgrades and promotions. Industry estimates suggest this situation can add as much as £100 a year per PC to the cost of running applications.
The cuts are similar to those that Microsoft has made on the cost of licensing specific products. The Microsoft Office Project Assurance Pack's price has been cut by 25 percent, and Microsoft Project Server 2007 has seen a similar price fall.
According to one analyst, when it comes to special offers, Microsoft does not tell enough people about them. "This is good news for users but Microsoft should be shouting about offers like this," said Tony Lock, analyst with Freeform Dynamics. "Software Assurance is not widely recognized and deals like this, which seems pretty much across the board of Microsoft software, should be better known."
Lock said that, while Microsoft has good market share, it is "not nearly as good as it could or should be, given offers like this".
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2009-01-23 02:55:30
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Software giant Microsoft announced on Thursday that it would slash 5.5 percent of its jobs "in light of the further deterioration of global economic conditions."
The cut would affect 5,000 of its nearly 90,000 employees, and 1,400 layoffs would take effect on Thursday, according to the announcement.
This would be the first mass layoff in the 33-year-old tech giant's history.
Meanwhile, Microsoft said it posted revenue growth of only 2 percent, to 16.63 billion dollars, and an 11-percent drop in net income, to 4.17 billion dollars in its fiscal second quarter.
This fell short of Microsoft's previous forecasts and Wall Street's expectations.
Microsoft attributed all this to weak demand for personal computers that run its Windows operating system and Office software.
The news sent Microsoft shares down by more than 8 percent on Thursday morning.
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said his company was not immune to the effects of the economy, but he was confident in the strength of Microsoft product portfolio and soundness of its approach.
"We will continue to manage expenses and invest in long-term opportunities to deliver value to customers and shareholders, and we will emerge an even stronger industry leader than we are today," he said.
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Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft
Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows XP, Windows Vista & Office Programs available for download -- finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now.
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Monitoring and managing IT services consumes a large proportion of most corporate IT departments' resources, and in the last few years this workload has been increased by the need to comply with new regulatory requirements. As a result, many organizations have few resources left over to devote to the introduction of new, business-enhancing technologies and services.
Microsoft’s System Center, a family of IT management applications, was designed to address this problem by providing a way to capture and aggregate knowledge about business applications and the IT infrastructure to more effectively manage and control the entire corporate IT environment.
Much of the knowledge and best practices for managing Windows systems and applications built in to System Center comes directly from the Microsoft developers responsible for writing the code for these applications and servers. As a result, organizations that implement System Center have the opportunity to optimize the way they manage their existing IT systems, carry out complex tasks extremely efficiently, and introduce new services according to established best practices.
Operations Manager 2007
Operations Manager 2007 is one of the key members of the System Center family. It offers a practical way to monitor hundreds or thousands of servers, end-user machines and applications, equipping IT staff with a comprehensive, real-time view of the health of the organisation’s IT systems and providing alerts whenever problems occur or intervention is necessary.
Configuration Manager 2007
Another key component of the System Center Family is Configuration Manager 2007 – an upgraded version of the product formerly known as System Management Server. Configuration Manager has been designed to enable secure and scalable deployment of operating systems and applications and detailed configuration management, and to provide comprehensive asset management of servers, desktops, and mobile devices.
Essentials
Essentials brings the breadth of knowledge of the System Center family to medium-sized organizations in a simple, unified solution. It has been designed for organizations with up to 500 PCs and limited in-house IT staff – typically a single person in charge of all IT responsibilities. Essentials is easy to install, and once running it simplifies and carries out specific tasks that medium-sized businesses frequently need to perform—including software distribution, operating system and application updating, and group policy configuration.
Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager, an application that enables centralized management of virtual machine infrastructure and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by system administrators and qualified end users, making it easy to increase physical server utilization and provide safe application test environments using virtual Windows servers and desktops.
The ability to create and manage virtual machines and move them to appropriate servers efficiently is becoming increasingly important as the benefits of virtual machine technology for cost reduction become more widely understood. Recognizing this, the entire System Center product range can be used to manage both physical and virtual servers, and the same tools – such as Configuration Manager or Operations Manager – work equally well in physical or virtual environments.
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