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	14 steps to a better, faster Windows laptop After a couple of years, most laptops fall seriously behind the times. Here are several ways to upgrade your legacy laptop to meet today's standards. Read More WEBCAST: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Combat Disasters And Optimize Business Operations Offsite data replication is key to ensuring ongoing business operations, but it can be complex and costly, especially when performed over long distances. Join this discussion to discover how you can apply fast, cost effective and reliable remote replication strategies and technologies. View now >> In this Issue HP sticks thumb in Microsoft's eye, discounts consumer Windows 7 PCs Microsoft will furnish malware assassin to XP users until mid-2015 How Microsoft had a hand in inventing Google's glucose-sensing smart contact lens Mac and Windows compatibility through the decades Microsoft's Build 2014 dev conference sells out Firewall start-up Aorato sniffs out Active Directory anomalies Surface 2 Pro owners: Where's our @#$%&! firmware update? CIOs tell Microsoft: Take the time you need to pick the right CEO Windows 8's complexity tax shackles Microsoft Prediction: Windows 9 will hit the market in 2014 WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. The Differences Between Network Memory & Application Caching Enterprises require an application acceleration solution that spans all types of traffic, one that is easy to manage, and 100% data coherency when supporting business-critical applications. This white paper will address these issues and offer a solution that addresses these enterprise requirements. Learn more >> HP sticks thumb in Microsoft's eye, discounts consumer Windows 7 PCs Hewlett-Packard today launched a new online promotion that discounts several consumer PCs by $150 when equipped with Windows 7, saying the four-year-old OS is "back by popular demand." Read More Microsoft will furnish malware assassin to XP users until mid-2015 Microsoft will continue to offer its malware scrubbing program to Windows XP users for more than a year after it stops patching the operating system in April. Read More How Microsoft had a hand in inventing Google's glucose-sensing smart contact lens Do you recall how Microsoft claimed it invented, or invisibly runs, practically everything? Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Forrester Workload Automation Paper commissioned by BMC In "Industrializing IT Workload Automation," Forrester Consulting and BMC Software analyze the results of a comprehensive survey that addressed job scheduling on the ground today. Read Now! Mac and Windows compatibility through the decades I've always been an agnostic in the religious wars between Mac and PC. Reaching across the aisle separating Steve Jobs from Bill Gates hasn't always been easy. But unlike trying to be bi-partisan in Congress, mixing Macs and PCs has actually gotten less complicated and less annoying over the decades. Read More Microsoft's Build 2014 dev conference sells out Microsoft sold out its April Build developers conference yesterday, running through the $2,095 tickets in about 31 hours. Read More Firewall start-up Aorato sniffs out Active Directory anomalies Start-up Aorato comes out of stealth mode today with what it calls a firewall designed to protect Microsoft Active Directory shops. Read More WHITE PAPER: Apperian Unlock the Value of Enterprise Mobility Download this guide and learn how to manage the secure deployment of enterprise mobile apps and data, while still encouraging the levels of employee adoption needed to drive the productivity and ROI gains that are possible. Learn More Surface 2 Pro owners: Where's our @#$%&! firmware update? After a month-long wait, some owners of Microsoft's Surface Pro 2 tablet this weekend said that they received a fix for a faulty firmware update that exhausted their batteries and caused sleep mode problems. Read More CIOs tell Microsoft: Take the time you need to pick the right CEO CIOs are waiting anxiously for Microsoft to pick a new CEO, but they don't mind that it's taking its time; the way they see it, Microsoft can't afford to make a mistake in the selection process. Read More Windows 8's complexity tax shackles Microsoft Complexity may be Windows' downfall, and Microsoft has not only failed to address the problem, but exacerbated it by shipping the dual-threat, two-UI Windows 8. Read More Prediction: Windows 9 will hit the market in 2014 So the conventional wisdom now is that Threshold, the codenamed next major update to Windows, will be branded Windows 9 to lose the taint of unlucky 8 (ironic, since 8 is considered a lucky number by the Chinese) and ship in early 2015. What amuses me is how many people are buying it. I guess so much news whizzes by us in the tech press on a daily basis that we forget rather easily. Read More
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