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Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives

Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)

Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.

Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices

Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)

Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.

Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices

This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.

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Microsoft Dissed Intel's 915 Chip Set Before Making 'Vista Capable' Changes

Microsoft published an article on its TechNet Web site in July 2005 recommending that users avoid Intel's 915 graphics chipset if they planned on upgrading to Windows Vista, internal e-mails show.

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By Gregg Keizer

November 20, 2008 — Computerworld —

Months before it bowed to pressure from Intel Corp. and relaxed the requirements for its "Vista Capable" marketing program, Microsoft Corp. published an article on its TechNet Web site recommending that users avoid Intel's 915 graphics chipset if they planned on upgrading to Windows Vista, internal e-mails at Microsoft show.

The article, posted in late July 2005, raised hackles at Intel, and led to exchanges between Microsoft executives during which one accused Intel of deliberately misleading users about the 915 chipset and its ability to handle Vista advanced graphics.

Composed by an outside writer, the TechNet article -- which was quickly yanked from the site -- sparked a story on the "X-bit Labs" site headlined "Microsoft Advices [sic] to Avoid Integrated Graphics Cores for Windows Vista" that included several quotations from the original.

One quote quickly got Intel's attention. "Boy you guys really made some friends over here," Intel's Marty Johnson wrote on Aug. 5, 2005 to a pair of Microsoft managers in the Windows group, Ty Carlson and Rajesh Srinivasan. Johnson then cited a bit from the TechNet article. "Excerpt from Windows Vista web site: 'Exactly which chipsets will end up fully supported is still open at this point, but specifying the higher end of the chipset choices from NVIDIA or ATI is probably indicative of the range -- and more concrete information should be available at a later date.'"

Later that same day, Carlson e-mailed Will Poole and Chris Jones, senior-level executives who at the time were responsible for development of the client version of Vista. Nearly six months later, Poole would be the one who called the shots during the dustup over Vista Capable that resulted in Microsoft loosening the rules for which graphics sets qualified for the program.

"I just want to give you a heads-up of a potential escalation in bound from Intel," Carlson said. In Microsoft's terminology, "escalation" meant that the matter would be bumped up the corporate ladder for discussion. Carlson cited the offending TechNet article and the Xbit Labs' follow-up, then continued: "Intel is obviously not happy as they have teams slaving to get their mobile integrated WDDM completed for Beta 2. I have called Intel and explained the situation and that we are working to pull the article."

WDDM referred to Windows Device Driver Model, the name for the new driver architecture set to debut with Vista and -- until January 2007 -- a critical requirement for inclusion in the Vista Capable program.