Study: Apple leads in phone-based tech support
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Microsoft offers new time-sensitive support service
Microsoft for the first time has said it will pay a financial penalty if it doesn't reach its service-level goals for a technical support product.
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Do you provide the best computer repair services to your valuable clients? If you are like many other computer repair services business owners, you probably feel challenged when trying to provide high-level technical services and run your business … especially when running your business entails managing a staff of technicians.
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Reliance Globalcom Managed Ethernet Services Drive Network Expansion
– Reliance Globalcom, a leading global provider of enterprise, wholesale, consumer and managed services, today announced that international law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings) selected its Managed WAN Ethernet and Managed Premium Internet services across offices in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Paul Hastings is leveraging Reliance Globalcom’s expertise in plug-and-play Ethernet technology and control of the world’s largest privately owned fiber backbone to support projections for continuation of its 20 percent year-over-year growth.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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