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…

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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…

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5 Things To Consider Before Diving Head-First Into Application Virtualization

According to a new SpiceWorks State of IT – Trends, Budgets, and Purchase Drivers study, the biggest driver for enterprises to embrace virtualization and cloud computing is to (1) reduce the support burden on IT staff (33%) — followed closely by (2) increase their flexibility and scalability, (3) enhance disaster recovery capabilities, (4) provide their…

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