Life after Windows: What happens to tech if Microsoft dies

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	Life after Windows: What happens to tech if Microsoft dies Free from the Microsoft hegemony, user and developer utopia should ensue, some argue — but here’s why apocalypse is more likely Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess Click to continue In this Issue IT Blogwatch: Linux market share grows vs. Windows and Mac OS X shrinkage Raise Your Windows IQ: Save and Retrieve Attachments Simplify File Organization With Windows 7 Libraries Preston Gralla: Firefox 3.6: Where’s the juice? IT Blogwatch: Mozilla Firefox 3.6: download now! Performance, personas and addons… Windows IQ: Learn Your Laptop’s Power Settings Preston Gralla: Installing Firefox 3.6: One more reason Linux isn’t ready for the prime-time mass market Microsoft patches IE, admits it knew of bug last August Other Resources Servers: Faster, Cheaper and Easier to Maintain WHITE PAPER: Dell Why Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 R2 is designed to provide enhanced management control over resources, reduced power consumption, reduced WAN utilization and a strong Web and application platform. These are just a few of the major enhancements to WS2008 R2. Check out highlights of the top 10 reasons to upgrade. Read More IT Blogwatch: Linux market share grows vs. Windows and Mac OS X shrinkage We’re told Linux is the only desktop OS with a growing market share: Windows and Mac OS X actually shrank. The Net Applications report also shows Windows 7 already dwarfing all versions of Mac OS combined. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers review the data. Not to mention People In Order… (MSFT) (AAPL) Read More Raise Your Windows IQ: Save and Retrieve Attachments So far this week you’ve learned Windows basics like the difference between files and folders, when to single-click or double-click, and the best power settings for your laptop. Read More Simplify File Organization With Windows 7 Libraries One of the most useful new features in Windows 7 is Libraries, a simple yet powerful tool for streamlining the management of all the files on your PC. It’s useful when organizing local data, and even more powerful when used to organize data across a network. Read More Preston Gralla: Firefox 3.6: Where’s the juice? The just-released Firefox 3.6 is a perfectly fine browser, boosting speed a reasonable amount over previous versions, improving security, and adding a useful feature or two. But use it a little while, and you’ll soon ask yourself: Is that all there is? And is the problem not with Firefox, but that browsers themselves have gotten old and tired? Read More REPORT: SAS Analytics: The Art and Science of Better In today’s economy, successful businesses are leveraging automated analytics tools to produce: * Better decision-making and business intelligence. * Improved, revenue-generating business processes. * ROI. * Competitive advantage. Click to Continue! IT Blogwatch: Mozilla Firefox 3.6: download now! Performance, personas and addons… It’s time to download Firefox 3.6. Just released by those nice people at Mozilla, it improves performance, checks your addons, boosts stability, and adds a nifty ‘personas’ feature. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers shovel the bits. Not to mention First-Person Tetris… Read More Windows IQ: Learn Your Laptop’s Power Settings My aunt recently told me about a problem with her new laptop: Whenever she’d step away from it for more than a few minutes, she’d close the lid. Upon returning, she’d open the lid, only to be faced with a blank screen and no response from the mouse or keyboard. Read More Preston Gralla: Installing Firefox 3.6: One more reason Linux isn’t ready for the prime-time mass market Looking to upgrade to Firefox 3.6? On Windows and the Mac, you don’t need to do much more than download a file, perform a few clicks, and you’re done. But for the moment, if you want to upgrade it on Linux, you’ll be in a world of pain unless you’re a very experienced Linux user. It’s one more piece of evidence that Linux needs plenty of help if it wants to crack the mass market. Read More Microsoft patches IE, admits it knew of bug last August As Microsoft patched the Internet Explorer zero-day used to break into Google’s network, it acknowledged that it had known of the bug since August 2009, when an Israeli security company reported the flaw. Read More
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