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Microsoft is at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) annual conference in New Orleans this week demonstrating how Windows 8 is helping health organizations, communities, and partners around the world to overcome healthcare’s toughest challenges. We believe technology has the potential to make a real impact and help rebuild the health industry, with new efficiencies, more support for mobility and better security.

The healthcare provider community is mobile and collaborative, and with more than 850 health apps currently available in the Windows Store, Windows 8 offers a platform for apps that allow healthcare teams to be productive anywhere, on a variety of devices and in the most secure manner possible. At HIMSS, several healthcare customers and partners are sharing their plans to deploy Windows 8 healthcare apps to help advance mobility, productivity and collaboration within hospital and practice settings.

Find out more from these quick overviews of a few of the top Windows 8 healthcare apps being showcased at HIMSS this week:

Pariscribe’s EMR Surface

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Hi, I’m Chris Hallum, Senior Product Manager on the Windows Team. This week we’re down at the RSA Conference in San Francisco talking about some of the security benefits of Windows 8. As you’ve likely heard us talk about, our overall goal with Windows 8 is to deliver the experiences people love along with the enterprise-grade solutions businesses need. Windows 8 is enterprise-ready, by design, and it builds on what is great about Windows 7 while creating a modern platform designed for a new generation of hardware experiences.

From a security standpoint we all know that attacks on organizations, users and their data are becoming more and more common. In fact you may have seen a number of recent stories on Kaspersky Lab’s analysis of Red October, which according to Kaspersky is being used in one of the most sophisticated cyber-attack campaigns that’s ever been seen. This campaign is targeted specifically at government, research institutions (e.g.: nuclear), oil and gas companies, aerospace and military organizations around the world, and it’s harvesting a broad range of documents and sensitive information. It’s a total disaster for those impacted and it’s unlikely that these organizations will ever be able to determine what information has been compromised.

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We’ve talked about how Windows 8 Enterprise offers businesses the experiences people love, and the enterprise-grade solutions organizations need. Of all the new features and functionality in Windows 8 Enterprise, perhaps the most talked about is Windows To Go, which gives users new possibilities in mobile productivity.

A quick refresher: Windows To Go is a fully manageable corporate Windows 8 OS image provisioned on a certified bootable USB drive that allows employees to work from anywhere. To use Windows To Go, you simply insert the provisioned USB drive into a compatible PC and boot into your personalized Windows 8 image, all while maintaining access to key security and management features of the operating system, as well as other key programs included within the corporate image, such as: Group Policy, BitLocker, BranchCache, App-V, UE-V and DirectAccess. Further, unlike many other mobility solutions, Windows To Go users are able to have their personalized Windows environment on their certified USB with or without network connectivity, which means they may be fully productive from any location they choose to work.

So, what exactly is a certified bootable Windows To Go USB drive?

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You know that Windows Phone 8 is great at keeping you connected in your personal life, but did you know that Windows Phone 8 is also great for work?

I’d like to introduce you to the Windows Phone business hub at www.windowsphone.com/business. It’s your one-stop shop for finding out about business-related phone features like hardware-accelerated device encryption for robust security, or built-in Office Mobile apps like Outlook.

The business hub is also the place for IT pros to find the latest technical info on the business and enterprise features of Windows Phone 8—including how Windows Phone 8 works with Office Server products like Exchange, Office 365, and SharePoint; providing security and managing devices; and creating and distributing line-of-business apps and Company Hubs.

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The web browser is not only important at home or in school. For business, the browser is a key tool for accessing line of business apps, connecting with customers and partners, modernizing employee desktops, and enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere. Choosing the right browser is critical for organizations, and a choice that has far-reaching impact on organizational security, productivity and application development costs.

Today we are happy to share the findings of Forrester Consulting, who evaluated considerations that IT managers weigh when deciding on a browser and whether to support or allow the use of nonstandard browsers. Forrester’s Business Case for Standardizing on a Single Modern Browser in the Enterprise is now available and reveals business priorities that reaffirm Internet Explorer’s choice as a great browser for business.

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As we’ve shared with you before, Windows 8 Enterprise has a variety of features unique to this edition of the operating system designed to address the needs of business customers. Today, I want to talk to you about these features that we hope will give you new possibilities in mobile productivity – whether you’re a road warrior, “work-from-home-er,” or remote office worker.

Windows To Go: Windows 8 Enterprise in Your Back Pocket

One of the most talked about new features of Windows 8 Enterprise is Windows To Go. As a reminder, Windows To Go is a fully manageable, secure corporate Windows 8 OS image installed on a bootable, certified USB stick. The feature allows employees to work from any location on practically any PC that meets hardware certification requirements for Windows 7 (or higher). For a list of the detailed hardware requirements, please visit this TechNet article, which provides an excellent feature overview of Windows To Go.

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During the past year we’ve been talking about what Windows 8 means for businesses. Now that Windows 8 is officially available across the globe, so many of our customers are seeing first-hand how Windows 8 can benefit their organizations.

This week I’m in Europe. I started by spending some time at Gartner Symposium in Barcelona on Monday and Tuesday, had a stop on Wednesday in London, and am traveling to Warsaw, Poland later this week.

For many of us in the industry, hearing about customer concepts and deployments are beneficial in really bringing the technology to life and will help you realize how these new products and technology can be used to create a competitive differentiation in your organization. Let me take a moment to highlight some of my favorites:

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Over the past year the Windows commercial team has met with hundreds of business customers to discuss their Windows 8 plans. From large to small businesses, customers are telling us that they are planning to adopt Windows 8 for many scenarios that will give them significant benefits. For example, most customers are eager to deploy devices that provide employees the convenience of a tablet with the productivity of a PC, while many are developing apps to help improve specific business processes. Still, others are expecting that their customers will be buying Windows 8. These businesses are creating apps to help build customer relationships and loyalty by providing their customers with great new services and experiences. Many organizations are also interested in taking advantage of the improvements made to the fundamentals, such as better security and faster performance. Others are looking at how Windows 8 can make life easier for their mobile workers. Regardless of why your organization is interested in Windows 8, you can be confident that one of the strong points of Windows 8 is its high compatibility with Windows 7. This will allow businesses to adopt Windows 8 devices in an environment with many Windows 7 PCs.

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Over the past year the Windows commercial team has met with hundreds of business customers to discuss their Windows 8 plans. From large to small businesses, customers are telling us that they are planning to adopt Windows 8 for many scenarios that will give them significant benefits. For example, most customers are eager to deploy devices that provide employees the convenience of a tablet with the productivity of a PC, while many are developing apps to help improve specific business processes. Still, others are expecting that their customers will be buying Windows 8. These businesses are creating apps to help build customer relationships and loyalty by providing their customers with great new services and experiences. Many organizations are also interested in taking advantage of the improvements made to the fundamentals, such as better security and faster performance. Others are looking at how Windows 8 can make life easier for their mobile workers. Regardless of why your organization is interested in Windows 8, you can be confident that one of the strong points of Windows 8 is its high compatibility with Windows 7. This will allow businesses to adopt Windows 8 devices in an environment with many Windows 7 PCs.

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Earlier this month, we announced that Windows 8 reached the RTM milestone. Today Windows 8 Enterprise is available to Software Assurance customers via the Volume License Service Center (VLSC), allowing you to test, pilot and begin adopting Windows 8 Enterprise within your organization.