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Microsoft To Adopt ODF, Take Role in Format Development

5/23/2008

Microsoft Wednesday posted plans for expanding file format support in the next major revision of Office 2007. The move follows charges from the ODF Alliance and the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) that Microsoft has been stifling options for users by favoring its own OOXML format. Read More

Office Live Workspace Beta Released Internationally

5/23/2008

Microsoft this week released an international beta of its Office Live Workspace (OLW) suite of productivity tools. The company also quietly launched an Office Live Update last week that takes on performance issues and brings in some additional functionality when working with Office 2007, XP, and 2003. Read More

Windsor Lands Multi-District ERP Contracts

5/23/2008

Windsor Management, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has landed contracts with several school districts, including districts in Arizona, Illinois, and Colorado, to deploy its Infinite Visions ERP software. Read More

Collaboration and Education Expand SAP Business Process Expert Community

5/22/2008

SAP announced new incentives for their Business Process Expert community at SAPPHIRE 2008 in Berlin, Germany. Read More

Randolph College Virtualizes on SAN

5/22/2008

Randolph College, formerly Randolph-Macon Women's College, has upgraded its storage to an IP-based storage area network (SAN) from StoneFly. The Lynchburg, VA-based school implemented the StoneFly Hybrid Storage Concentrator (HSC), an iSCSI SAN with 8 TB of capacity, after evaluating solutions from several vendors. Read More

Xirrus Rolls Out WiFi for 1:1 Program at Pueblo SD

5/22/2008

Pueblo School District No. 70 in Colorado has deployed a WiFi network across three of its schools to support the district's 1:1 computing initiative and to support various mobile devices used in the district. The deployment was handled by WiFi developer Xirrus. Read More

Citrix Debuts New Desktop Appliance Partner Program

5/21/2008

At the Citrix Synergy event in Houston, the company announced a new Desktop Appliance Partner Program. Appliances and thin clients are important elements in the emerging value chain for hosted desktop virtualization solutions both in terms of end user expectations for performance and ease of installation. Read More

Unified Communications System in Tulsa Powers Virtual Classroom

5/21/2008

Tulsa Technology Center, a school district with four campuses that offers career and technology education classes in Oklahoma, will be deploying a Nortel and Microsoft unified communications platform. The district will be using Xeta Technologies, a national provider of converged voice and data communications solutions. The platform is expected to enhance student-teacher communication while reducing school expenses. Read More

VMware Enhances Thin Client Partnerships

5/21/2008

Stealing some thunder from Citrix's recent XenDesktop unveiling, VMware has made several announcements aimed at strengthening partnerships with thin client suppliers. Read More

Xceedium Looks To Expand Market Presence with New Partner Program

5/21/2008

Security and compliance solution provider Xceedium, announced Tuesday the launch of a new partner program, dubbed the "Xceedium Xcelerate Partner Program." Giving partners access to a range of resources, the company is looking to the new program to expand its presence in the marketplace. Read More