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2012 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards
The Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards recognize the best products on the market from two points of view: ours and yours. Our contributors and editors chose their favorites, and hundreds of readers voted, too. Here are the results!
Windows IT Pro Community Forum, September 2012
A reader responds to Paul Thurrott’s take on the death of Small Business Server, and Microsoft comes to the defense of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.
Windows IT Pro Community Forum, July 2012
Transend responds to Russell Smith’s product review, and readers chime in about LDAP Over SSL and the “dumbening” of technology.
Cloud Computing Revealed as a Hoax
Today, an Amazon Kindle marketing associate says she fabricated the "cloud" and that it actually started as a bunch of files stored on a PC under her desk.
2011 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards
By providing two distinct perspectives on the market, our annual award programs offer a unique way to recognize the hottest products among the past year's offerings.
Windows Server 2012 Preview
Windows IT Pro authors share their first impressions of Windows Server 8 after Microsoft’s BUILD conference and the Windows Server 8 Reviewers Workshop. Paul Thurrott gives you the mile-high view, Sean Deuby covers Active Directory, Jeff James focuses on storage, and Michael Otey discusses virtualization.
Windows IT Pro Community Forum, November 2011
Readers respond to a Bill Stewart PowerShell article, Windows IT Pro’s increased cloud coverage, Nate McAlmond’s StorageCraft review, Brian K. Winstead’s real-world Exchange series, and Sean Deuby’s Enterprise Identity column.
Windows IT Pro Insider: Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
The Windows IT Pro team takes a closer look at the features of Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 after the Microsoft BUILD conference. They discuss the touch screen and Metro UI and the touch-based version of Remote Desktop.
Windows IT Pro Insider: Windows Server 2012 Preview
Windows IT Pro's Paul Thurrott, Michael Otey, Sean Deuby, and Jeff James discuss the impressive number of new features slated for Windows Server 2012, which Microsoft presented today at the BUILD conference in Anaheim.
Windows IT Pro Insider: VMworld 2011
Sean Deuby, Jeff James, and Michael Otey travel to VMworld 2011 and discuss VMware’s Project Horizon and Horizon Mobile as well as their interview with Microsoft’s Edwin Yuen regarding a study on private cloud that compares the cost of Microsoft’s private cloud to VMware solutions.
2010 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards 1
The polls have closed! Here are your—and our—favorite products of the year
Letters - 17 Dec 2009
Readers voice their opinions about the Hyper V vs. VMware, previewing PDFs, the virtues of Server 2008 R2, and upgrading to Windows 7.
2009 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards 1
Picking a favorite product from an impressive crowd of competitive offerings is never an easy task, and such was the case with our Editors' Best and Community Choice awards this year.
In Memorium: Bob Chronister, 1942–2009
Longtime contributing editor passes away.
A Guide to Migrating Public Folders to SharePoint
This guide to migrating public folders to SharePoint Server, brought to you by Windows IT Pro and AvePoint, will provide a general overview of the process that will help you plan, design, and carryout your migration with as few problems and pitfalls as possible.
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