Consumerization of IT–How to address this
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10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft
Before joining Microsoft a little bit more than 10 years ago, I ran a team at PricewarehoureCoopers on e-Business Risk Management – classical security consulting in the Internet bubble time. When I announced that I will leave PwC and join Microsoft, I got interesting reactions (and remember, this was 2001). Mainly they were along two lines: Oh, you are joining a desktop company? ...
10 Reasons to migrate off Windows XP
I would like you to sit back, close your eyes and think about the year 2001. Think about how you used technology back then, how you used the Internet. Now, let’s take it a little bit further back in history and think of the year 2000. Just after we realized that the Year-2000-Problem was handled very well by the industry. How you used technology, how you used the Internet, the ...
Office 365 Becomes First and Only Major Cloud Productivity Service to Comply With Leading EU and U.S. Standards for Data Protection and Security
A long title but this was the title of the official press statement yesterday. Compliance is always a key question in the public cloud space. Therefore it is very important for us that we now achieved three things: Office 365 is compliant with EU Model Clauses, Data Processing Agreements and ISO 27001 among other standards. Office 365 is the first and only major ...
Pre-warning: Windows Server 2003 SP1 Out of Support in April By Roger Halbheer, on February 27th, 2009 During Conficker we realized that a lot of customers are on unsupported OSs. I would like to draw your attention to a few things:
- There is a webpage called Microsoft Support Lifecycle where you find all the information on the lifecycle of our products. Let me just quote two things:
- Through the policy, Microsoft will offer a minimum of 10 years of support (5 years Mainstream Support and 5 years Extended Support) at the supported service pack level for Business and Developer products.
- When a new service pack is released, Microsoft will provide either 12 or 24 months of support for the previous service pack (Remark: It is 24 months for Windows)
- You can subscribe to a quarterly newsletter with regards to this issue: Subscribe to Microsoft Support Lifecycle Quarterly Update Newsletter
- There is a side, where you can search for products including the products that leave Extended Support e.g. in the next 6 months http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/
- There is one page dedicated to Service Packs: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps
- If you look at that, you will see that Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 will be retired on 14. April 2009. This means that this is the last time you will get Security Updates for SP1! If you did not already, please start to roll-out SP2 immediately.
Hope this helps
Roger
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