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I did the unthinkable – left Linux behind and lived in the Windows 10 technical preview as my primary computing environment. Here’s what I learned. Every now and then, it’s nice to break out of your bubble, to really get outside your comfort zone and see how things are “on […]
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While Google for Work and Microsoft Office 365 offer many similar services, choosing between the two can be a significant challenge for CIOs. This comparison eases that burden. CIOs and IT managers have many choices when it comes to cloud-based productivity tools for email, documents, calendar and file-sharing. The first […]
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Office conflicts with one of Patch Tuesday’s security updates, manager cautions on Twitter Microsoft today took the unusual step of telling users running Windows 10’s Technical Preview to uninstall Office before applying one of December’s security updates. “We just made a tough call after working through the night that I […]
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Gartner’s forecast downgrades Apple’s OS expected share to 11.3% this year, 11.6% in ’16 Microsoft’s share of shipped devices will climb slightly this year and pick up some steam in 2016, but Apple’s share will grow at a more sluggish pace because of slow-downs in iPhone and iPad, Gartner forecast […]
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A new browser not named ‘IE’ would give Microsoft ways to leave legacy support behind Microsoft will unveil a browser not named Internet Explorer (IE) alongside Windows 10, according to an online report. Long-time Microsoft watcher and ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley cited unnamed sources on Monday to say that […]
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All supported versions of Windows are affected including Windows 10 technical preview Microsoft is issuing the largest number of monthly security advisories since June 2011, five of them critical and affecting all supported versions of Windows. And applying the patches will be time consuming, experts say. “Next week will tell […]
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Director of search says he’s focused on integrating search into Microsoft products, services Microsoft’s director of search admitted that its Bing search engine can’t compete with Google search in a full-on faceoff, but the company will focus instead on search applications. Stefan Weitz, who leads Microsoft’s search efforts, told an […]
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Microsoft has begun a months-long rollout of Delve, the first Office 365 application that taps into the suite’s Office Graph machine learning capabilities and maps connections between co-workers, documents and information. Delve, announced in March with the code-name Oslo, is designed to automatically surface colleagues, files and data that are […]
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Web-based myBulletins organizes security updates; gets a ‘C’ grade from one professional Microsoft today launched a Web-based security dashboard for IT professionals that displays a customized view of the company’s past patches. Called “myBulletins,” the dashboard shows the security updates for user-selected products, including the permutations of Windows, the iterations […]
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Say good-bye to Windows RT. The introduction of the Surface Pro 3 just killed it, if not sooner, then later. Here’s why the operating system has not future. With the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft has finally clarified its tablet strategy: Build productivity tablets that do double-duty as ultrabooks, and charge […]