Following Steve Ballmer’s keynote speech earlier today at CES2011, Ballmer ran through a lot of new developments but the focus was on Microsoft’s partnerships and Microsoft Surface. Towards the end of Ballmer’s keynote speech, Ballmer introduced Steven Sinofsky who is President of Windows and the Windows Live division and didn’t he have a lot to show off.

We started off hearing about Windows 7 and how successful it has been since its release, we also heard that the IE9 Beta had already hit and exceeded 20million downloads.

Sinofsky introduced us to the Microsoft Surface 2.0 which has been manufactured by Samsung. The first thing we noticed about the device is that it is an awful lot thinner than the first generation but the significant difference was no camera’s inside to track inputs.

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Using SpiderGroup’s Hosted Exchange service comes with unexpected benefits. Read about them here…

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We provide a number of solutions via the SaaS model. There are a number of easy to understand benefits although a provider must be chosen carefully.

Some benefits:

1. Lower costs with Pay-as-You-go
Subscribing to a SaaS application removes the overhead associated with implementing conventional software. Traditonal software implementation would involve purchasing and maintaining servers, housing them securely, and installing and maintaining the software. The upfront investment in hardware, specialist IT skills and the software itself can be huge – whereas using a SaaS provider means paying a PAYG subscription.
– This point is particulary prevalent in these financial times, business is still going but large upfront cash investments are best avoided

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