I was listening to a webcast today;
Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: The Business of IT: A Conversation with Microsoft CIO Ron Markezich (Level 100)
Ron knows IT, too often CIO's don't get IT, but from what I heard today Microsoft has themselves a great role model in Ron Markezich. Connected Systems is Ron's buisness, he see's over 150,000 sites for collaboration and if you think you got spam, he needs to deal with 9 million a day! He is running MS IT on SQL 2005 and has been doing so for months now and doesn't have far to go to get a bug fixed.
His effort at consolidation with Windows Server 2003 (the 2003 Wave, as he likes to say) has been remarkable! Microsoft IT has 89,000 end users in 89 countries worldwide, so it's all about achieving operational efficiency.
The stat that realty got my attention was 25,000
Tablet PC’s deployed (so that’s where they are), that must be the largest mobile workforce in the world and they all use Wi-Fi, what a guy!