2020 is going to be a big year for enterprise IT teams, with Windows 7 support having ended on January 14th. Even though the expense of paid extended support can easily be budgeted for by most enterprises, there is still a ticking clock counting down to the day when paid support runs out, not to…
Over the past years, Access Capture has helped organizations around the world package and test applications faster, safer, more accurately, and more efficiently in an enterprise environment by automating much of the labor-intensive, costly, and tedious process. In October 2019, we released Access Capture Version 3 which included many feature and platform improvements. We were…
Today is the day — Windows 7 is officially at the end of its life. From now on, any organization still running Windows 7 has to go on extended support, called Extended Security Updates (ESU). At this point, if your organization hasn’t migrated to Windows 10, you will have no choice but to go on…
When I started application packaging twenty years ago, Microsoft had only just released its installer called MSIEXEC.EXE. The primary goal of Microsoft Installer was to create a generic way to install and uninstall applications on Windows while allowing you to manage and version-control in a structured way. Back then, Microsoft needed this for its new…
For years, enterprises have struggled to hire and retain outstanding talent. According to the Wall Street Journal, there were 918,000 open IT jobs to fill in the last three months in the United States. In the United Kingdom, things are just as dire and are expected to increase in intensity as the new UK’s IR35…
The term “Evergreen IT” has been around for some years. It has been defined multiple times in many different ways, but when talking to enterprise IT organizations around the world, more often than not, IT managers and executives complain that they still don’t really understand what it means. Today, I want to kick off a…
If your organization is running Office 2010 and has LOB critical macros or apps, you have a hard deadline of October 13, 2020 to migrate, or you risk continuing to use those apps and macros while running a vulnerable, unsupported version of Office. Unlike for Windows 7, which goes End-of-Life 9 months earlier on January…
Most enterprise IT teams are currently breathing a sigh of relief as budget rounds are completed or at least about to be. According to a Spiceworks survey, on average, 44% of enterprises (5000+ seats) say they will increase their IT budgets while 47% remain the same as last year. The better-than-last-year outlook on budgets is…
After a bit of a rough year, things are starting to look up: Gartner predicts that IT spending will bounce back to a healthy growth rate of 3.7% in 2020 — largely due to enterprise software spending. John-David Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner, said: “The slowdown in IT spending in 2019 is not expected…
On September 30th, 2019, Microsoft’s Brad Anderson announced that Windows Virtual Desktop, Microsoft’s new cloud-based desktop and app virtualization service, is now generally available worldwide. It has been in public preview since March 2019. The promise of Windows Virtual Desktop is to “deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes” by…
