NASHUA, NH - January 2, 2008: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has emerged as a major presence in the enterprise content management (ECM) market, improving office collaboration and streamlining workflows by instantly connecting office professionals to the information they need.

But the electronic workflows are exposing the problems many companies have with an overload of paper. These organizations are finding that many times they are operating two business processes - one for electronic data with Microsoft SharePoint and another with paper-based manual processes.

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PALO ALTO, Calif. - 5 Dec 2007: HP today announced a broad portfolio of “Microsoft-ready” hardware, software, services and solutions to help ensure customers experience a seamless transition to the upcoming Microsoft Windows® Server 2008.

HP technologies, when used in conjunction with Microsoft Windows Server 2008, can help businesses achieve more control, greater flexibility and increased protection of their IT investments.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced that it has established a new dimension for midrange storage performance and scalability with the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage, model AMS1000, in Microsoft Exchange Server Environments. Through the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP), which Microsoft designed to facilitate third-party storage testing and solution publishing for Exchange Server, Hitachi Data Systems demonstrated that the AMS1000 supports more than 25,000 concurrent Exchange 2007 users, making the Hitachi AMS1000 an ideal storage platform for Microsoft Exchange environments.

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CHICAGO — July 23, 2007 — Through its presence at HostingCon 2007 this week, Microsoft Corp. will announce its comprehensive strategy for enabling hosting providers to be successful in the world of software plus services. The strategy includes providing the next-generation hosting platform, delivering applications ready for hosting, and driving growth through tight integration with Microsoft’s extensive partner ecosystem. At the show, Microsoft will demonstrate recent additions and updates to its core platform technologies and applications for the hosting industry that enable service providers to offer a compelling next-generation end-user experience for their customers. Microsoft will highlight new development tools and applications to hosting providers for the first time, detail the initial successes of its Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Go Live license program for Microsoft® IIS7 beta, and announce that cPanel Inc. has introduced a Windows® version of its control panel. With these enhancements, hosting providers are well positioned to play an important role in the software plus services ecosystem by partnering with Microsoft.

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ZDNet UK has observed that Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows 2008 internally. At present, 99.75% of servers hosting Microsoft.com have been converted to Windows 2008. Quoting the article:

“To deploy a new operating system and new web server into an environment like this without compromising performance or reliability is quite a feat,” Microsoft technical product manager Eric Woersching said on his blog.

For those interested in how Microsoft approached the switch, the company posted a 38-minute video with Woersching talking to two of Microsoft.com’s operations managers.