In the first week of Microsoft TechEd 2008, executives gave developers a glimpse of future Microsoft technologies. Now it's time for VARs and IT administrators to learn what these technologies will mean for them. Margie Semilof, senior news director for SearchWinIT.com, calls in from Orlando, Fla., to tell us how the second week of TechEd is going. We also discuss this week's Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, where Google laid out its plans for success in the enterprise market.
Microsoft updates IT on key product releases With big bang releases like Vista and Windows Server 2008 already on the market, Microsoft must dig deeper to wow the IT crowd now in town for the second week of TechEd 2008.
Google vows to earn enterprise IT trust Google wants to parlay its Web search dominance into a presence inside corporate firewalls. A company exec says Google can win IT confidence there.
The impending cloud Many VARs view the looming specter of "cloud-based computing" with wariness, fearing they will be cut out of the vendor-customer interaction. Others see huge opportunities.
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