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What to do about Java in Windows (and elsewhere)?

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Windows Intune Gets Major Upgrade–Now Also Handles iOS and Android devices

Thanks to Mary Jo Foley's ZDNet post from yesterday ("

John Savill Offers Nifty Win8 Cheat Sheet

John Savill has been a player in the Windows world since the late 1990s, when his Windows NT FAQ became a go-to resource for IT professionals looking for Windows NT tips, tricks, and details that was...

MS Word Autosave/Autorecover Saves My Bacon, Gets My Kudos

As a writer, I spend what time I'm not reading and researching various technical subject matters writing about those same things. My tool of choice (or mandate, for most of the publishers for whom I work) is Microsoft Word. My current version of Word comes from MS Office Professional Plus 2010 and...

Windows 8 Sales Top 60M Mark by 1/4/2013

Yesterday, Microsoft disclosed at CES that Windows 8 sales had hit 60 million in 10 weeks (70 days, which makes the benchmark date January 4, 2013) after its launch (source:

Windows 8 hits 60 million ‘sold’

Windows 8 hits 60 million 'sold' Sales of Windows 8 have now passed the 60 million mark in the two months since it officially launched, according to Microsoft. No matter how you slice it, that's an impressive number - but it brings up all kinds of questions. The company claimed four million...

CES Offers Interesting Windows 8 Add-ons and Platforms

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What’s Really Stopping Win8 from Achieving World Domination? It’s a Value Proposition…

January 2, 2013  6:31 PM

Two Important Win8 Expiration Dates for January 2013

Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops

Thanks to Martin Brinkman over at ghacks.net, I was reminded of two important Windows 8 related expiration dates for this month. First, and probably...

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December 28, 2012  5:30 PM

Interesting gaps between Win8 UEFI install theory and practice

Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops

After posting about Windows 8 UEFI Install on December 19, 2012, I've now been through that exercise enough times to have learned some "don'ts"...

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