Peter Pawlak
Peter Pawlak
based decisions great harder job leaving manage operating practice systems trying windows
Microsoft's whole company's practice had been based on doing a great job on Windows and leaving integration with other operating systems to the third-party partners. Now they are trying not to make decisions that make it harder to manage other platforms.
customers download microsoft patches
Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.
automatic company few install manage people
For any company that has a few IT people and more than 50 or 100 computers, it isn't that overwhelming to install and manage SMS. And if you're real small, you're probably just going to install automatic updates.
control using
It's better if you can have control centrally using one mechanism.
across bring group hardware manage provided software tool whatever
It was one of the limitations of Group Policy, that it couldn't be used across the board. You used to have to bring in other interfaces, some things you would have to write a script. Or you used whatever tool the hardware or software vendor provided to manage it, and each one used a different technique.
attractive cost lower microsoft platform
The Microsoft platform is very competitive with RIM devices, and is attractive as a lower cost alternative.
beyond devices hands people
They would like to get these devices in the hands of people beyond those RIM has been able to reach.
believe market microsoft needs partner relationships terms
Because of Microsoft's position, in terms of market share, in terms of their partner relationships, I don't believe that Microsoft needs to do that.