Jason Perlow

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Jason Perlow is a technologist with over two decades of experience integrating large heterogeneous multi-vendor computing environments in Fortune 500 companies. His expressed views do not necessarily represent those of his employer, The Lin…ux Foundation.

Jason Perlow's full-time employer is The Linux Foundation, a 501(c)3 not for profit organization. He writes as a freelancer for ZDNET. The postings and opinions on this blog are his own and don't necessarily represent the positions, strategies, or opinions of the Linux Foundation.

Latest from Jason Perlow

Windows 11 has advanced hardware security. Here's how to get it in Windows 10 today

The best parts of Windows 11 are already in Windows 10. You just have to enable them.

July 15, 2021 by Jason Perlow in Windows 11

Apple: It's time to leave Neverland

Apple has lost its Peter Pan, and that means that it finally has to grow up.

October 27, 2011 by Jason Perlow in Windows

Windows 8: No, I AM YOUR OS UPGRADE!

Say what you wish about this release being only for tech geeks: The Microsoft Empire will prevail with Windows 8.

August 30, 2012 by Jason Perlow in Windows

Surface: Microsoft, What the Hell is Wrong With You?

Microsoft's new tablet not only fragments the Windows 8 mobile ecosystem, but also creates strife with its OEMs and will re-ignite negative perceptions of the company's former monopolist position.

June 18, 2012 by Jason Perlow in Windows

How to get your Bing Desktop image of the day back on Windows 8.1

Yep, the Windows 8.1 Preview release breaks the Bing Desktop program. But I've created a temporary workaround. (UPDATED)

June 27, 2013 by Jason Perlow in Windows

Installing Windows 8 on your old PC could turn it into Greased Lightning

My ZDNet colleague and long-time friend Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols thinks that old PCs need Microsoft's latest operating system upgrade like a hole in the head. I fervently disagree.

August 20, 2012 by Jason Perlow in Windows

Some Clarity about the Devil Mountain Software Clarity Suite

We recommend that you not participate in DMS's exo.performance.network due to the questionable security practices of the company and the ethical issues we have discovered in our group investigation of its principal, Randall C. Kennedy.

February 22, 2010 by Jason Perlow in Windows

Adobe, Stop Being a Wussy

Adobe Systems has been operating as a vassal state of Apple and Steve Jobs since its very inception.

February 23, 2010 by Jason Perlow in Windows

Run Windows on Your iPad? You betcha, WYSE guy.

WYSE's PocketCloud software allows you to run full-blown Windows desktop applications on your Apple iPad.

April 9, 2010 by Jason Perlow in Windows

It never works right when you demo Windows 7 on Japanese TV

It's always awful when you try to demo something to a large audience and then it fails miserably.I found this video on Jason Calacanis' Mahalo.

October 25, 2009 by Jason Perlow in Windows

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