Note: View information about the latest SmartDeploy version and release history at www.smartdeploy.com/product-releases. With Microsoft’s recent release of Windows 11, it’s no surprise that many of our customers are eager to check it out for themselves. So far, most customers are testing internally with their IT teams before rolling out to end users, which we
After more than a year of social distancing, quarantining, and working from home, some companies are slowly returning to the office, but many others are moving towards a permanently remote workforce. As times have proven to continuously change, it may be the same story for your staff. Has your company growth led to hiring new
Windows 11 hardware requirements solidified In this summer-ending episode, Brad and Aaron bid each other farewell – Brad is moving on to another position in the Windows app space, and Aaron will be continuing the Enterprise Dish podcast with another host at a time yet to be determined. I never spoke to Brad myself, but
How Schools can Leverage COVID Relief Funds for IT Software Using CARES Act funding to manage 1:1 student computers Managing a school’s IT strategy, security, and infrastructure is no walk in the park even in the most pedestrian of times – which makes tackling this through a pandemic something entirely herculean. Tell you something you don’t
Over the last 18 months, our engineering team has moved quickly and adapt to the changing demands of today’s hybrid work environments, particularly for large enterprises who have had to drastically scale up the number of endpoints and employees working from outside of their corporate networks. We are pleased to share our first major version
We are excited to announce a new major version release, SmartDeploy 3.0.1000! This has been an extensive project to undertake for the team and we are eager to get more customers upgraded to this new platform. Some of you were able to attend our January 2021 customer webcast where we gave you a sneak peek
This week’s Enterprise Dish podcast was like an out-of-control IT freight train, bringing news so fast that it is literally outdated by the time I have a chance to write about it. Even Aaron’s small talk about the weather – lamenting a heatwave sweeping the rest of the country but sparing Seattle – is out-of-date
Long live Flash It’s time for another Enterprise Dish, which Brad and Aaron begin with an oft-repeated, but now very real announcement: Flash is dead! Long live Flash: the Adobe plug-in that won the late ’90s/early ’00s internet with animations, prototypical viral memes, and shock sites to chill your bones. This technology was how rapid-fire
Microsoft acquires Nuance for $20B As Brad and Aaron discussed Microsoft’s recent $20 billion (all-cash) purchase of Nuance Communications, I experienced a moment of speech recognition…recognition. The company name didn’t leap immediately to mind, but as they began discussing the company’s Dragon speech recognition software, it all came flooding back. Eleven years ago, on my
Oh, Hafnium. Why couldn’t you remain a lustrous, silvery-gray, tetravalent transition metal whose characteristics were so irrelevant to our daily lives (except when it comes to semiconductor fabrication, amirite folks?) that they could’ve remained a perpetual Wikipedia search away for most of us? Why, instead, did you have to reveal yourself as the namesake of a suspected