Microsoft COO Kevin Turner told CIOs attending the CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany, Tuesday that the ongoing commercialization of IT is a challenge that they need to embrace.
“The shift in technology is quite profound,” Turner said Tuesday. “For the first time in the history of technology, a consumer and end-user has more capabilities on their body than they have in the workplace.”
CIOs need to embrace the challenges posed by consumers bringing a wide range of computing devices into the workplace, Turner advised. With the release of Windows 8 later this year, Microsoft will deliver a consistent user experience across smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and even televisions as it helps CIOs “under a lot of pressure to continue to innovate and to do things faster,” he said.
With Windows 8, CIOs will no longer have to worry about security and management issues whenever workers bring their own devices into the enterprise space.
“It has never been done before in the history of operating systems,” [but] on Windows 8, you don’t have to compromise,” Turner said during his CeBIT keynote address. There are “no either or decisions” CIOs must make, he added.
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The USB drive can be used at just about any…
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