Windows 1.0: Still playing Reversi after all these years

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	Windows 1.0: Still playing Reversi after all these years Hide the women and children: It's the first version of Windows! I recently used Windows 1.0 for the first time, after downloading an old copy and installing it in a virtual machine on my Windows 7 PC. Here are the results. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2011 One-day learning for executive IT pros. Come to IT Roadmap in Boston on June 7 to explore new IT trends, technologies and strategies from leading analysts and peer experts. One-day event features workshops, tutorials, strategy sessions, keynotes and an interactive exhibit floor for in-depth technology learning designed for IT executives. FREE event. In this Issue 5 questions to ask before buying Microsoft licenses Cisco is a top 3 server vendor Instant Expert: All you need to know about OpenFlow Android wars: Sony, LG challenge Motorola for Verizon users' hearts, cash Daily innovation smackdown: Michael Dell vs. Steve Wozniak Apache focuses on cloud standard New U.S. bill requires ISPs to keep 18-months records YouTube turns 6... and, yes, they do grow up so fast Russian company cracks iOS 4 hardware encryption Insider data theft costs Bank of America $10 million Want to stop junk email? Block payments to spammers: study WHITE PAPER: HP 6 Key Dedupe Challenges The deduplication market is the fastest segment ofthe storage industry, per IDC. Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing spin are. Read More Today! 5 questions to ask before buying Microsoft licenses Microsoft wants you to sign a premium software licensing contract. Should you do it? Read More Cisco is a top 3 server vendor Well, they couldn't figure out pocket videocams but Cisco sure seems to have nailed blade servers. Just two years after shipping its first Unified Computing System platform, Cisco is now No. 3 in blade server revenue, having leapfrogged Dell in Q1, according to IDC. Read More Instant Expert: All you need to know about OpenFlow You've heard of OpenFlow. You may have heard it's going to revolutionize routing. But do you know anything about it, really? Get the scoop in this Insider report. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC One Size Does Not Fit All: The Case for the Custom Cloud When it comes to cloud services, "semi-custom" goes a long way. "The Case for the Custom Cloud," shows you how users can configure their own customized cloud services from choices you dictate – and how you can deliver the resulting cloud services quickly and affordably. Read More Today! Android wars: Sony, LG challenge Motorola for Verizon users' hearts, cash Summer is just around the corner, which means it's time for device manufacturers to release their high-profile Android devices all at the same time to pre-empt the iPhone 5 hype machine. Read More Daily innovation smackdown: Michael Dell vs. Steve Wozniak Dell CEO Michael Dell does not fear the gigantic shift to smartphones as central processing devices. Instead he believes there is a time and a place for smartphones and desktops to play harmoniously thanks to the cloud. Wozniak's main claim to fame was his partnership with Steve Jobs in starting up Apple. The partnership worked out well, especially when they knew how to build their computer but couldn't afford the best memory chips, which came from Intel, Wozniak said. Jobs talked to someone he knew at Intel and got them for free. Who wins? Vote now! Read More Apache focuses on cloud standard The Libcloud project provides a unified interface for more than 20 cloud services, including those from IBM and Amazon. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Cloud Computing Drives Improvements in IT Service Delivery IDC OPINION Cloud computing promotes a new dialogue between business and IT decision makers allowing them to define business service requirements first and then decide how to balance the use of shared, internal virtualized IT resources and external public services cost-effectively. Read now New U.S. bill requires ISPs to keep 18-months records A bipartisan bill introduced on Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives will require Internet service providers to retain subscriber information for up to 18 months to assist federal law enforcement in investigations into online child pornography and child exploitation cases. Read More YouTube turns 6... and, yes, they do grow up so fast All the world is a stage and pretty soon everyone in it will be featured in a video on YouTube ... at least once. Read More Russian company cracks iOS 4 hardware encryption Having cracked Apple iPhone backups last year, Russian security company ElcomSoft appears to have found a reliable way to beat the layered encryption system used to secure data held on the smartphone itself. Read More Insider data theft costs Bank of America $10 million A Bank of America insider who sold customer data to criminals cost the bank at least US$10 million in losses. Read More Want to stop junk email? Block payments to spammers: study Stopping spam is an almost futile effort if the focus continues to be on spam filtering and botnet takedown, according to a research team from the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, Berkeley, The International Computer Science Institute and Budapest University. These measures are simply like cutting the head off of a hydra monster, because spammers quickly find ways to replace lost resources. Read More
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