Microsoft accepts reality, provides iOS and Android management tools

Beijing time on March 24th news, according to foreign media reports, it is now obvious that even Microsoft's own employees are not everyone agrees that Windows Phone 7 will lead the enterprise mobile market — — in recent Microsoft At the Management Summit (MMS), the company announced that it will release a beta version of the management tool that allows IT staff to manage iPhone, iPad, Android devices, and Symbian in enterprise systems and applications. Devices, as well as Windows Phone 7 devices. As of now, the tool is only available on Windows Mobile.

The newly released tool is called System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), which will be used to deploy and update servers, clients and other devices on all computing and network infrastructure in the enterprise. . The previous version of the tool was SCCM 2007 and can only be used on traditional Windows Mobile devices —— it is not even available on Windows Phone 7 right now.

At the Microsoft Management Summit, Microsoft released a beta version of SCCM 2012 that can be downloaded.

Analysts believe that Microsoft's development of this version of SCCM means that Microsoft has a solid and calm grasp of the reality, because the company knows the current state of the global market —— a large influx of consumer electronics devices, And IT staff needs to manage these devices.

Then Microsoft wrote the following paragraph to explain the main purpose of this tool:

This tool allows people to get effective no matter where they are or whatever device they use. management. This includes a wide range of devices connected to Exchange ActiveSync, such as Windows Phone, Symbian, Apple OS (iOS) and Android-based devices.

Microsoft is likely to be dissatisfied with the Windows 8 development team. The Windows 8 tablet is too late for the market, and even if it is listed, it is very difficult to get a piece of it from the iPad and other Android tablets. Microsoft has lost the key difference between itself and its competitors. This makes it hard for Windows tablets to catch everyone's attention.

However, developing SCCM is indeed the right thing to do, and its release is also good news for IT staff. In the long run, the success of Microsoft depends on whether SCCM can help companies build and maintain the best computing and network infrastructure. It is an indisputable fact that iOS and Android devices will be used in large quantities in the enterprise. If Microsoft doesn't provide tools like SCCM for these IT companies, it's likely to encounter even more difficult problems now —— not just losing the smartphone and tablet market is as simple as —— The core of the business is at risk.

The industry believes that no matter who brought this proposal to Microsoft, it should be praised. And there is no doubt that IT staff can take a sigh of relief, because their "Arsenal" has another tool that can be used to connect and manage their iOS or Android devices.