Posts Tagged ‘DOWO’

If you’re not a Microsoft Partner, chances are, you have no idea about most of their exclusive offerings. One such offering is DOVO: Desktop Optimization using Windows Vista and Office 2007. Pulled from Microsoft’s, “DOVO For Partners” Connect site:

“DOVO leverages Microsoft tools and technologies for deploying the desktop. Based on the Microsoft Deployment Solution Accelerator, it is designed to fully capture the benefits of desktop optimization by helping reduce total cost of ownership, improve user productivity, and increase agility.”

Now, with Windows 7 out in the wild, Microsoft is planning to upgrade this offering in a new little acronym called DOWO: Desktop Optimization using Windows 7 and Office 2007. DOWO is currently planned to be launched in 2009 Q4. Even further down the road, Microsoft has a projected probability of 60% that DOWO will get an update in 2010 Q2. The difference? Office 14 in lieu of Office 2007. Here is a comparison of the two from an internal Microsoft Partner offerings roadmap:

Since DOVO and DOWO are essentially the same type of offering (with DOWO leveraging more recent technology, of course), here’s a slide about DOVO from an internal presentation with an overview that adds to the description I provided from Microsoft’s connect site:

And for what it’s worth, I just couldn’t come up with anything corny enough to make a decent pun with the word, “dojo.” Feel free to indulge in the comments section below, should you be so bored…

-Stephen
http://msftkitchen.com