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Microsoft pulled off a rare feat with Windows 7's taskbar, making it far more elegantly useful and customizable, without turning its back on everyone's well-honed sense of what it does. Dig around, though, and you'll find a few features that make the taskbar even more functional.
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With less than one-third of IT spending targeted towards new projects and innovation, the last thing an organization wants to do is cut these valuable projects that add new business value. Yet many CIOs miss opportunities to effectively reduce IT costs, says Tim Raducha-Grace, co-author of 'The Business of IT', because they don't have a clear view of their IT spending. Here he offers three steps to understand and reduce your IT costs
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
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.
- mburton325
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