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Configuring password complexity in Windows and Active Directory

Posted May 20, 2012 - 6:00 pm

You may be a Unix devotee, but if your organization uses both Windows and Unix systems, you need to understand how password complexity is configured on both platforms.
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AT&T achieves Zen state of unintentional irony

Posted April 26, 2012 - 11:37 am

The company that fought last year to reduce the number of U.S. carriers from four to three says more competition in the smartphone market is a good thing.
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What abject failure in the smartphone market looks like

Posted April 20, 2012 - 3:49 pm

This week's news involving Research in Motion and Nokia are sad, predictable and -- in one case -- unintentionally comical.
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Two more Google Goggle parody videos

Posted April 6, 2012 - 2:54 pm

Clippy will help you get across the street. Hey, do you want a coupon for Starbucks?
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Dropbox is valuable because it's a screwdriver, not a multi-tool

Posted March 2, 2012 - 3:35 pm

When someone goes and does something like declare Dropbox a future $40 billion company, the urge to pop the bubble proves basically irresistible.
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Microsoft shares flirting with $30

Posted January 20, 2012 - 3:53 pm

Shares of Microsoft made a run at $30 on Friday following the software giant's fiscal second-quarter earnings report.
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More reasons why Dropbox has won so many geeky hearts

Posted December 23, 2011 - 12:17 pm

Here are a few intangibles that have made Dropbox such a big success among the early adopting, tech-loving crowd.
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Investors bullishly indifferent to Microsoft's record Q1 revenue

Posted October 21, 2011 - 11:33 am

Shares of Microsoft were flat Friday after the company reported record first-quarter revenue.
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Microsoft board: Ballmer 'Underpaid;' investors: fire him before we go broke

Posted October 5, 2011 - 12:05 pm

Steve Ballmer has been CEO of Microsoft since 2000, and Big Cheese since 2008, as Microsoft dropped from Evil Empire to also-ran, seen Apple outstrip it in value and take the lead in markets that were always core businesses to MSFT, while Google took those that haven't.
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Windows is't a traffic cop for your PC; it's a mob with communication problems

Posted September 30, 2011 - 11:56 am

Windows got so complicated over the years the only way to build it was in modules that could run separately but communicate well. Now the middleware that lets the modules talk is in so many pieces it often breaks the whole thing with incompatible updates and temper tantrums.
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Add to Win8: Ability to tell when wheels come off, not just when tires are fully inflated.

Posted September 19, 2011 - 3:21 pm

Windows is modular; different pieces for different functions, working together in the same machine. Microsoft's diagnostics should know if a module is broken, but can't always tell if a falling out means two won't talk, or if one has become corrupt, but won't admit it.
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Windows 8 features: Tablet! Cloud! Apps! Smoke, Mirrors, Misdirection!!!

Posted September 14, 2011 - 6:30 am

Microsoft turned the buzz about it from negative to positive during the past weeks with its standby Big New Product Show &ndash debuting an operating system everyone wanted to see because they never had any choice but to buy it. Now, of course, they do. If they remember.
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Microsoft's 'single Windows ecosystem' makes more sense than you think

Posted July 15, 2011 - 2:57 pm

Microsoft's grandiose visioneering made people think 'single ecosystem' was a dark plot. The plan is more to finish modularizing Windows to minimize the code needed to port to a new device.
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'Consumerization of IT' infiltrates U.S. government

Posted May 31, 2011 - 3:59 pm

Government agencies are allowing employees more choice in deciding what kind of electronic devices they use for work.
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Morning links: Intel starts to panic over Windows on ARM

Posted May 18, 2011 - 10:00 am

Plus: Facebook photos secured legally if not actually.
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Broad revenue gains push Microsoft's Q3 profits up 31%

Posted April 28, 2011 - 5:47 pm

Propelled by revenue increases in four of its five business units, Microsoft on Thursday reported a 31 percent jump in fiscal third-quarter net income.
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Shocking study shows schism between mainstream and "Mac" users

Posted April 26, 2011 - 11:54 am

"Mac" users promote their own agenda of complex coffee drinks, silly clothing choices and a dangerous tendency toward technical innovation no good PC user should tolerate.
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Windows 8 leaks predict better recovery, worse interface

Posted April 4, 2011 - 2:35 pm

Windows 8 has shipped to a very few OEMs for testing, causing leaks of screen shots and feature lists that may or may not indicate what we'll eventually see.
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Microsoft's Fix It makes self-help a lot easier

Posted April 1, 2011 - 3:53 pm

Some of Microsoft's Fix It tools make repairs to complex annoyances blissfully simple, but they've been almost impossible to find. Not any more.
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Does putting WebOS on its PCs mean HP thinks Windows is over?

Posted March 10, 2011 - 3:29 pm

Clouds, tablets and smartphones are turning the IT industry on its head; will Microsoft's Windows dominance be one of the casualties?
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Android to invade Microsoft's netbook turf

Posted March 7, 2011 - 2:28 pm

Sure, Microsoft may have lost its way in the smartphone market and fallen far behind in tablets, but at least Redmond has one unassailable stronghold in mobile devices -- netbooks! (Also see: Netbooks, we hardly knew ye)
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Broad VMware vision still too narrowly focused

Posted February 9, 2011 - 8:10 pm

VMware has great credibility, broad, capable technology and a desire to replace Windows with an all-VMware vision of virtualization, clouds and virtual clouds.
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So did people buy 30% fewer Windows PCs last quarter or not?

Posted January 31, 2011 - 6:45 pm

Bookkeeping issue is to blame for confusing numbers, but that doesn't mean there's not a major, long-term problem with Windows' popularity.
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Microsoft shares down on lower fiscal Q2 profit

Posted January 27, 2011 - 6:15 pm

Shares of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) were down slightly in after-hours trading Thursday after the software giant reported a decline in fiscal second-quarter profit.
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Threat or Menace: Windows will be everywhere

Posted January 7, 2011 - 1:44 pm

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer brought little news to CES, but promised not to have a different version of Windows for every device.
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