Blog Series: Windows 8.1 for Business
Welcome to March! And not that I mean to alarm you, but welcome to the final month before support ends on Windows XP. I know that many of you supporting IT and devices for your businesses have known this for a while, and are either already done or continuing to work on migrating to Windows 7 or Windows 8. But which one, and why?
What’s interesting to me is that there is a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) surrounding Windows 8.1 and whether or not there is any real benefit to providing and supporting it as the default, best-choice for business devices. And while I know that most of you have indeed done proper due-diligence in order to come to the conclusion that Windows 7 is a better choice for your businesses, it just may be that not all of your information was based on fact, or was missing some very important beneficial tidbits which, if you had known, might very well have changed the equation.
That’s the purpose of this March blog series: “Windows 8.1 for Business” . We, the 9 Microsoft Technology (IT Pro) Evangelists in the US, plus a few special guest authors, want to take this month to help dispel some myths and provide some useful resources for you as you evaluate (and hopefully choose) Windows 8.1 as your business desktop/laptop/tablet/phablet platform of choice.
Below is our schedule, which will be continually kept up-to-date with links to completed articles as they become available. Stop back often, because we sincerely want you to benefit from this information. And if you have any questions or comments, please please please post them in the comments either here, or at the articles themselves.
UPDATE: Thank you for your patience! Due to the importance of the topics we are going to cover, we’ve had to delay posting to this series. We will continue soon (this week of March 17), and I’ll add items to the schedule as soon as we’re sure of their availability. Keep watching…
All the best!
Kevin Remde
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Author |
March 3 |
Series Introduction (this article) |
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March 19 | Getting started with Client Hyper-V | Matt Hester / @MatthewHester |
March 20 | Is the “Cloud” a really big deal? | Blain Barton / @Blainbar |
March 21 | Remember Our Good Friend Group Policy | Matt Hester / @MatthewHester |
March 28 | Build No-code Business Apps with Windows 8.1, Project Siena and Microsoft Azure | Keith Mayer / @KeithMayer |
March 31 | Build No-Code Business Apps with Windows 8.1, Project Siena and Microsoft Azure (Part 2) | Keith Mayer / @KeithMayer |
April 1 | Build No-Code Business Apps with Windows 8.1, Project Siena and Microsoft Azure (Part 3) | Keith Mayer / @KeithMayer |
April 8 | Top 5 Key Security Improvements | Anthony Bartolo / @WirelessLife |
April 10 | XP EOS – Guidance for Small/Medium Businesses and Individual Consumers | Pierre Roman / @PierreRoman |
April 14 | Series Wrap-up and Resources | Kevin Remde / @KevinRemde |