October 28, 2010
Enterprises still wary of Office 2010
Network World
Robert Mullins writes about enterprise adoption rates for Microsoft Office 2010.
” So far only four per cent of businesses surveyed have fully deployed Office 2010 since it was released in the spring and while 90 per cent eventually plan to upgrade to it, only 20 per cent plan to upgrade to it before this year is out. The survey of 953 IT people at companies of various sizes globally shows about 70 per cent of respondents ‘have significant concerns about the complexity of the migration,’ according to Dell Kace, which commissioned the survey done by Dimensional Research.”
What WiFi Direct is and is not
ZD Net
Dana Blankenhorn writes why WiFi Direct could be a replacement for BlueTooth.
“(WiFi Direct is a good replacement for Bluetooth, in that manufacturers can now support one standard for short distance peer-to-peer communications.”
Good news, bad news on the green printer front
ZD Net
Heather Clancy shares some characteristics of what makes a printer green.
“Energy Star compliance, solid ink that is designed to generate up to 90 per cent less waste than rival laser printer technology, print drivers that default to two-sided printing and for using recycled paper more effectively, a power management feature called Intelligent Ready that uses artificial intelligence to take traditional usage patterns into account and power down accordingly (and) GreenPrint software that lets you know if you are about print unnecessary pages.”
