Windows Phone 7 for IT pros

Welcome to the Windows Phone 7 for IT pros blog. This blog is designed to provide IT pros with tips and pointers to help get workers with Windows Phone 7 devices up and running as quickly as possible.

 

Today’s workers can’t be shoehorned or pigeonholed into a single description or generation. Workers from many different cultures need to work together and communicate through whatever means possible to get the job done. However, there is one increasingly common factor—user mobility.

 

According to research, mobile users will make up 73 percent of the workforce in 2012. The growing need for mobility means computing is becoming increasingly user-centric. IT departments are changing to become more flexible and to accommodate users’ needs. Smartphones are no longer nice-to-haves, but essential tools. And it’s no longer feasible to dictate what technology tools are “allowed” without taking into account what your employees need and want to have. The changes that many IT departments are dealing with today are sometimes referred to as the “Consumerization of IT.” Many workers now personally choose and purchase the technologies they bring into the workplace, and they expect IT to make them work.

 

Windows Phone 7 is a different kind of phone designed to bring together what users care about most—easier and faster. It was designed to accommodate their needs for mobility and web 2.0 technologies. And it can tie in to your existing Windows infrastructure and take advantage of the rich functionality available in products such as Microsoft® Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint® Server. The flexibility of Windows Phone 7 is compelling, and its integrated but feature-rich user interface is impressive—there is a lot for IT pros and users alike to appreciate.

 

Make sure to reference this blog or the Microsoft Download Center page for useful Windows Phone 7 articles when your workers bring Windows Phone 7 devices in and ask you to make them work. Let us know if you have any tips or pointers to share, or any requests that can help you successfully deploy Windows Phone 7 in your organization.

 

Alan Meeus, Windows Phone Product Manager