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The Future Of The Universal Windows Platform & Its Impact On Your App Management Strategy

Since the introduction of Windows-as-a-Service, Microsoft has been actively promoting a way to create universal applications that could leverage Windows 10 platform capabilities across all Windows devices: the Universal Windows Platform. But in the past months, more and more voices declared this common application platform dead, or at least close to extinction. Today, I want…

How To Proactively Prepare For The End-of-Life of Windows 7 (And The Birth of Evergreen IT)

Believe it or not, there are still more than 385 million devices in enterprise environments that are running on Windows 7  —  an operating system that has already lost its mainstream support on January 13, 2015 and will now finally get cut off from extended support on  January 14, 2020! While Windows 10 is estimated to catch up by November of this…

No MSIs For Office 2019 — And Why You Should Care

Microsoft recently announced that Office 2019, the company’s next perpetual Office suite (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Skype for Business applications as well as  Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business servers) will be released some time this fall, with previews beginning to ship in the second quarter of 2018. If you read the announcement carefully,…

Application Packaging In An Evergreen IT Context

According to a quick poll of 419 IT project managers and IT executives done by Juriba, 32% of respondents said they are most afraid of the potential business disruption caused by Windows-as-a-Service roll outs, while 22% fear potential application compatibility issues most. These fears, though often downplayed by Microsoft, are very realistic and viable! A…