Sean Seaton Director, Communications Sector Microsoft Canada
According to Gartner Inc., companies are currently spending only 30% of their IT budgets driving new applications, and more than 70% maintaining and running existing applications. Reversing this trend, and spending less on IT maintenance, will deliver a clear competitive advantage.
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A social, personal, and connected TV experience Microsoft Mediaroom Brings Connected TV to Life At 2008 International CES, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of DVR Anywhere on the Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and multimedia platform, giving digital video recording (DVR) consumers the flexibility to watch their recorded TV programs on any TV in their home, further enhancing the platform's powerful connected TV capabilities.
Powered by award-winning IPTV platform MTS Allstream to Work With Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent to Introduce Enhanced Broadband Internet and TV Services MTS Allstream announced that it will move forward with steps to introduce next-generation high-speed Internet and TV services to Manitoba customers, with more high-definition TV (HDTV) offerings, personal and digital video recorder (PVR and DVR) functionality, improved guide features and other advances.
Interactive Media Manager in use IMM Case Study Starz Entertainment is migrating their entire production process into Interactive Media Manager (IMM)/SharePoint 2007 due to a highly successful adoption of the IMM platform, generating time and cost savings across the (Broadcast) division.
Improving the real-time communications environment Communications Provider Expects to Improve Productivity, Reduce Costs with VoIP Solution Bell Canada wants to create a more integrated, easy-to-navigate, and cost-efficient real-time communications environment for its workers. The initial results show the potential to increase productivity within remote and local teams and avoid costs associated with administration, hardware, and travel.
A scalable program for mobile operators Microsoft Releases New Version of Its Windows Live Mobile Developer Program On February 11th, 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced that it is releasing a new version of its Windows Live Mobile Developer Program, enabling developers to create mobile versions of its popular Windows Live services that can be built for virtually any mobile phone independent of phone operating system.
Extending Windows Live Services reach Microsoft and Telefónica Extend Reach of Windows Live Services Across Latin America Microsoft Corp. and Telefónica SA announced that Telefónica has agreed to adopt Windows Live services for mobile phones for all of Telefónica's Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-based handsets in 12 countries in Latin America.
On-the-go business-class e-mail Microsoft and Cbeyond Launch New E-Mail Service for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Microsoft Corp. and Cbeyond announced a new e-mail service specifically targeted to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that will aim to deliver a seamless, enterprise-class messaging and collaboration experience. This will give SMBs the ability to compete using services traditionally reserved for large corporations.
