Top 10: Windows 7 beta, Jobs' health, the economy again
Macworld Expo (sans Steve Jobs) and the International Consumer Electronics Show (sans Bill Gates) got the new year off to a start, providing plenty of IT news this week. Jobs' decision to forgo giving the Macworld keynote was in the news again, as he released a public letter saying his obvious weight loss owes to a hormonal imbalance. In another continuation of news that started last year, economic woes continued to hit IT (along with pretty much everything else). But happy new year anyway.
Are You Steve Jobs in Your Business?
The World of Macintosh, filled with more people with more fanaticism than World of Warcraft, is all abuzz (and atwitter and ablogging) about MacWorld. Why this year more than most?
Five things Apple needs to do at Macworld
Although rumors are flying about new Mac minis, updated iMac, the " iPhone Nano" and Apple apps in the cloud, this year's Macworld Expo probably won't feature announcements as dramatic as the original Mac or the iPhone. But there are a few simple things Apple could do to make this a memorable Macworld while bolstering confidence in company's future among investors and fans alike.
Quiz: He said what? (an oddly informative news quiz)
Who isn't going to just say hi and walk off? Who flipped an energy-guzzling PC on its head? Who doesn't think breasts are harmful to children? Who has bigger, badder things to worry about than flaws in the MD5 hashing algorithm? Think you know? Take this week's quiz!
Macworld: Analysts expect evolutionary products
While Steve Jobs won't be giving the keynote address during next week's Macworld Conference & Expo, analysts still expect the company to introduce some products during the company's last scheduled attendance at the annual trade show.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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