<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Microsoft South Africa</title><link>http://www.microsoft.com/en-za/default.aspx</link><item><title>Small businesses can think big at the My Business Expo</title><link>Article.aspx?id=37</link><description>The importance of small business in the South African landscape should never be underestimated. The small and medium enterprise (SME) sector has always punched well above its weight in the market, but this is not always enough.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013</pubDate><category>Articles</category></item><item><title>Software piracy costs consumers and businesses billions</title><link>Article.aspx?id=36</link><description>Computer users who install pirated software on their computers in the hope of saving money are in for a rude surprise, according to a new study  released by the IDC this week.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013</pubDate><category>Articles</category></item><item><title>Windows Phone 8 aims for business market</title><link>Article.aspx?id=35</link><description>Microsoft's Windows Phone 8, which launched with much fanfare to the consumer market late last year, is busy making a strong play for the heart and mind of the business market with a host of enterprise-level features that the company says will slot in seamlessly with most business IT infrastructures.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013</pubDate><category>Articles</category></item><item><title>Microsoft releases next-generation Office 365 for business</title><link>Article.aspx?id=34</link><description>Barely a month after unveiling its new Office and Office 365 Home Premium for consumers, Microsoft has launched a major update to its Microsoft Office 365 services for business.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013</pubDate><category>Articles</category></item><item><title>Microsoft reinvents Office for consumers</title><link>Article.aspx?id=38</link><description>Microsoft has taken the wraps off the latest version of its flagship productivity software with the launch today of its new Office and Office 365 Home Premium for consumers.</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013</pubDate><category>Articles</category></item><item><title>Leading IT Company Saves Money and Gains a Highly Scalable Virtualization Platform</title><link>CaseStudy.aspx?id=32</link><description>As one of South Africa’s leading ICT companies, Gijima provides a comprehensive range of IT solutions and consulting services for both vertical and horizontal industries. The company needed a cost-effective, flexible and highly scalable solution that would not only showcase their expertise, but also provide a platform to deliver services seamlessly, securely and on-demand to its clients. Gijima achieved all of these by implementing Windows Server 2012.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012</pubDate><category>Case Studies</category></item><item><title>IT Provider Expects to Reduce Storage, Bandwidth Needs with Branch Cache Solution</title><link>CaseStudy.aspx?id=31</link><description>Business Connexion is a fast-growing South African IT services firm that likes rising revenues but has a different opinion of its own rising IT costs. The costs of branch-office access to data over the wide area network were a particular concern. To address those costs, the company is adopting Windows Server 2012 with BranchCache technology. Business Connexion is using it to centralize data while streamlining the process by which it’s cached and used at branch offices—reducing the time it takes business users to download and open large files, boosting the accuracy of data, and increasing IT productivity.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012</pubDate><category>Case Studies</category></item><item><title>Cloud Solution Helps Firm Reduce Complexity, Cut Costs and Improve IT Efficiency</title><link>CaseStudy.aspx?id=30</link><description>The ADvTECH Group is one of South Africa’s leading companies in the areas of education, training, skills development and placement services. Being one of the leading education providers, it is important for the Group to stay ahead in information technology. It embarked on this venture in order to improve their IT infrastructure by reducing the number of physical servers, reduce costs, improve the student experience and make use of the most recent technological advances in cloud computing. Because of Windows Server 2012, the Group could fulfil their needs and provide a virtualization solution that will benefit their learners and clients alike in the long run; including being able to simplify the student network configuration in the near future.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012</pubDate><category>Case Studies</category></item><item><title>Cloud Services Provider Deploys a Highly Scalable Cloud Hosting Platform while Cutting Costs</title><link>CaseStudy.aspx?id=29</link><description>Pamoja was incorporated into SEACOM limited in September 2011 with the aim of offering the most relevant cloud offerings to the African continent. The company wanted to have the best hosting platform for its services while offering excellent functionality and performance levels, as well as faster time-to-market cycles for their cloud solutions to its customers. Deploying Windows Server 2012 has helped the company meet its key goals while reducing costs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012</pubDate><category>Case Studies</category></item><item><title>Global Car Rental Company Becomes More Agile by Using a Powerful Cloud Solution</title><link>CaseStudy.aspx?id=28</link><description>Europcar delivers car rental solutions to its customers that are personal and easy. Its portfolio of products and services include free 24-hour road assistance, international rentals and touring services - just to name a few. In order to provide an even higher level of service to its clients, the firm needed a virtualization solution that was fast, stable, flexible and cost-effective. By using Windows Server 2012, the company ensured itself of a powerful cloud platform that can meet their needs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012</pubDate><category>Case Studies</category></item><item><title>Microsoft’s Edwin Yuen speaking from Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa</title><link>Video.aspx?id=5</link><description>Watch as Microsoft’s corporate director of virtualisation, Edwin Yuen, talks about what’s happening during the South African leg of the Microsoft Management Summit 2012, which will be hosted in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012</pubDate><category>Videos</category></item><item><title>Meet the Microsoft PC Guy!</title><link>Video.aspx?id=4</link><description>Got a PC question? Want to know about tech trends? Log in to Twitter and put @MS_PCGuy to the test - he'll give you the guidance and advice you need.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012</pubDate><category>Videos</category></item><item><title>B-roll: Windows Phone 7</title><link>Video.aspx?id=3</link><description>Intended for broadcast journalists, this broadcast quality b-roll includes footage of Windows Phone 7 Apps including El Mundo and Flickr. This video also includes demo of the hubs, copy and paste, shots of all Windows Phone 7 devices, lifestyle shots and stocking shelves at AT&amp;amp;T and T-Mobile Stores.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011</pubDate><category>Videos</category></item><item><title>Bing Responds</title><link>Video.aspx?id=1</link><description>Intended for broadcast journalists, this video includes statements by Stefan Weitz, Director of Search, Microsoft. It also includes b-roll of bing.com.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011</pubDate><category>Videos</category></item><item><title>Cloud Computing Technology Policy</title><link>Video.aspx?id=2</link><description>Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel and senior vice president for Legal and Corporate Affairs, discusses the policy challenges and opportunities for cloud computing, laying out several areas where both industry and governments must increase their focus to help realize the full potential of the cloud.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011</pubDate><category>Videos</category></item></channel></rss>