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Preventing Data Corruption in the Event of an Extended Power Outage
An Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) ensures system uptime in case of power outage, but it's only part of the solution. Read this white paper to learn how adding power management software...
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OS X 10.7 Lion is more painful than Vista
My beef is not with the deliberate changes Apple made to the OS, but with the colossal number of show-stopping bugs that have been allowed into this release.
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Windows Security wrap-up: praise for Vista and a historic first
At last week's Black Hat conference, a security expert who spent time "beating up Vista" talks about Microsoft's approach to security. Microsoft falls off a top 10 list. And you should visit...
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Microsoft needs to stop giving people reasons NOT to upgrade Windows!
Microsoft might want to exorcise Windows XP and Vista from the world's PCs (because if you're running old software, you've not given Microsoft any cash in a while), but the company's own attitudes...
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Can Windows 8 finally vanquish the ghosts of XP and Vista?
These days, Microsoft is haunted by two ghosts. Windows Vista has practically vanished, but Windows XP is still hanging around on stage, interfering with Microsoft's careful messaging. Can Windows...
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Windows 8 will run on all Windows 7 PCs (and Vista PCs too)
Worried that you'll have to buy a new PC in order to be able to run Windows 8? Don't! Microsoft has said that the Windows 8 system requirements will be the same, or perhaps even lower, than those...
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Windows 7 more malware-resistant than XP/Vista
If you're a Windows user that's holding onto your Vista or XP installation, then this recent security report from Microsoft might make you think about switching to Windows 7.
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Is Honeycomb Android's Vista?
With Honeycomb, Google could have a Vista-like situation on its hands. Microsoft's salvation was Windows 7, and Google's is IceCream.
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No IE10 for Vista users
You might have noticed that the Platform Preview release for IE10 was only compatible with Windows 7. Well, if you're a Vista user, you're not only out of luck with the Platform Preview, but also...
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Why won't Internet Explorer 10 run on Windows Vista?
Why does the platform preview of Internet Explorer 10 refuse to install on Windows Vista? Maybe it's because Vista's short, unhappy life will end in less than one year. I help decode the cryptic...
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How to enable the hidden Administrator account in Windows 7 and Vista
Bill Detwiler shows you how unlock the hidden Administrator account on Windows 7 and Vista with the Computer Management console and Net User command.
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Is Ubuntu 10.10 yet another chance to ditch Windows?
Ubuntu isn't going to displace Windows anytime soon. But it just keeps getting better. Schools owe it to their budgets and users to at least give it a look.
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Microsoft: 'If we don't cannibalize our existing business, others will'
"If we don't cannibalize our existing business, others will." That's from a slide deck from a one of many Microsoft presentations this week at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference, where...
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Is the iPhone 4 becoming the Windows Vista of Apple?
Between antenna problems and app store hacks, the iPhone 4 is starting to feel like an outcast in the iPhone portfolio - kind of like Windows Vista was for Microsoft.
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HP edging toward VistA support?
Right now HP, its business partners and channel seem to have gone half way down the road. They support open -- open systems, open standards. This makes it easier for HP to remain software agnostic.
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Ballmer: Microsoft lost "thousands of man hours of innovation" on Vista
In a speech to fellow CEOs at Microsoft's 14th annual CEO Summit, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said something that gives us an insight into what went wrong with Vista.
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Open source health IT goes well beyond VistA
Black Duck estimates there are now nearly 900 open source projects with a health focus, a 13% increase from a year ago, estimating the value of the code base is up 25% from a year ago, to $8 billion.
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It's official: Microsoft is out of the Vista doghouse
Microsoft has won back the customers it lost during the three years when it was best known for the unloved and much-mocked Windows Vista. In fact, new customer-satisfaction scores show Microsoft's...
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Medsphere pleased with Fed's VistA direction
The program to upgrade VistA beyond MUMPS gets a big thumbs-up from Medsphere.
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VistA to be saved as open source
The report is filled with praise not just for open source software but the open source process.
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Microsoft's "Entertainment and Devices" division suffers from poor branding
While Windows, Office, and server tools pull in billions of dollars in profits for Microsoft, its "Entertainment and Devices" division is barely keeping its head above water. Why? One reason -...
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