During a presentation today at Software 2008, an event showcasing the most innovative software companies at the Interop conference, Spiceworks announced the third generation of its free, ad-supported Spiceworks IT Desktop application, which is designed to meet the IT and network management needs of small and medium businesses. The 3.0 version includes a new user interface called Network Glide™, which lets IT professionals rapidly flip through their network inventory in a manner similar to popular consumer applications. In addition, Spiceworks added the ability to inventory SaaS services, extended the popular activity feeds to IT services to track changes, and added support for Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory.

“Spiceworks continues to combine the best aspects of consumer applications and powerful IT management software with the largest community of small business IT pros working together to help each other get their jobs done,” said KoKo Washington, I.T. Support Specialist, DATAprose, Inc. “It’s paying off by making it easier for small business IT managers like me to run our networks more smoothly.” The user interface in version 3.0 also allows users to launch and view additional network and systems management tools directly from within the Spiceworks interface.