No, Windows is not dying (although Microsoft is strangling it)

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	No, Windows is not dying (although Microsoft is strangling it) On the heels of Gartner's latest gloomy predictions for the PC market, it's amazing how people can twist numbers around. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware, Cisco and NetApp Meritrust Sees Results with FlexPod and VMware Faced with an aging physical IT infrastructure, Meritrust Credit Union sought a more stable foundation for its business critical applications and for its Oracle database, which is central to its operations. Read Now! In this Issue Microsoft tempts XP laggards with $84 upgrade discount Microsoft: Facebook Home is a copycat, Windows Phone is the 'real thing' 6 killer Mac features we'd love to see in Windows PCs XP migration easy pickings over, say experts Practice Safe Search: 10 Essential SharePoint 2013 Search Hints Gartner: Tablet shipments to outstrip PCs by 72% in 3 years HP Envy X2 review: A Windows 8 tablet to covet AV-Test issues first Windows 8 antivirus solution ratings MMS 2013: In the Cloud I ditched Windows 8 and went Ubuntu by mistake Microsoft: No more support for you, Office for Mac 2008 Windows 8.1: What's in a name (and why it matters) WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Good APM Practices Get Results According to NetForecast's survey, enterprises with application performance management (APM) best practices benchmark scores above six on a ten-point scale experience 75% better results in critical areas. This research paper reveals the survey results as well as discusses the best practices for APM. Learn More. Microsoft tempts XP laggards with $84 upgrade discount Microsoft kicked off a new promotion aimed at Windows XP customers, who have just one year to ditch the 12-year-old OS before it's retired from support. Read More Microsoft: Facebook Home is a copycat, Windows Phone is the 'real thing' After the Facebook Home event announcing an Android homescreen Facebook interface, Microsoft said, Hey, that's pretty much our Windows Phone campaign from 2011. Read More 6 killer Mac features we'd love to see in Windows PCs Even if the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence, there's nothing wrong with tossing the occasional glance at your neighbor's fetching petunia patch. What, weak metaphorical analogies aren't your thing? Let's start again then. Read More XP migration easy pickings over, say experts The easy upgrades to Windows XP have already been done, migration experts said, predicting that a large number of enterprises will still be running the aged OS a year from now. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Consolidation Without Compromise Pay more to get less consolidation? The Iron Age is over. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x consolidation. For less. Get Consolidation Without Compromise now. Learn More Practice Safe Search: 10 Essential SharePoint 2013 Search Hints SharePoint 2013's search engine allows search designers to truly optimize the search experience for users, provided that sufficient time is allocated to designing and implementing search. Read More Gartner: Tablet shipments to outstrip PCs by 72% in 3 years Three years from now, tablet computers will outsell traditional Windows PCs, and do so by a whopping 72%, according to the latest projections from Gartner. In between, PC shipments drop at ever faster rates. Read More HP Envy X2 review: A Windows 8 tablet to covet Smart in design and stingy on power, HP's Envy convertible works well as a laptop or a tablet. Read More AV-Test issues first Windows 8 antivirus solution ratings Windows 8 virus scanners were evaluated for the first time by AV-Test Institute, an independent testing house. Using the vendors' default settings, AV-Test assessed protection, performance and usability categories before certifying 26 home user security products and nine corporate endpoint protection products. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel Big Data Requires a Remodeling of the Data Warehouse Take a few moments to learn about a data warehouse appliance that is a massively parallel server optimized to run Microsoft's SQL Server that delivers enterprise scalability, ease of maintenance, and a single version of the truth, all for a low cost. Read Now! MMS 2013: In the Cloud System Center wants to help you build your data center without boundaries. Read More I ditched Windows 8 and went Ubuntu by mistake This post is coming to you courtesy of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. While I could tell you I thought it would be cool to use Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop OS for a while, I would be lying. The fact is I don't have a choice because I messed up the Windows 8 boot partition on my laptop last night while trying to install Ubuntu in a dual boot situation. Read More Microsoft: No more support for you, Office for Mac 2008 Microsoft today reminded customers running Office for Mac 2008 that support for the suite ends next Tuesday. Read More Windows 8.1: What's in a name (and why it matters) The more information that leaks about Windows 8's expected summer upgrade, dubbed "Blue" by Microsoft, the more questions that pop up, analysts said. Read More
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