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Windows 7 End of Life: What Are Your Options?
As of Jan. 14, Microsoft will no longer offer security or support for the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008/R2 operating systems.
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Happy Birthday, Windows 10! My, How You've Grown
Windows 10 will reach the ripe old age of one on Friday. Every birthday boy or girl deserves something nice for their birthday, and Windows 10 is no different. Microsoft will release a number of upgraded apps to Windows 10 users next week.
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Microsoft Has A Surprise for Win10 Users (& It's Not a Forced Upgrade)
Anniversaries are all about good things, and the Windows 10 anniversary is no different. On Aug. 2, Microsoft releases the anniversary edition of Windows 10 and is celebrating by adding multiple Windows upgrades that should improve Cortana, its intelligent personal assistant; security; and e-commerce, videos and data sharing in the Edge browser.
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Did Windows 10 Fail After All?
Is the operating system responsible for the continued decline of the PC market, both in enterprises and households? Or has the world moved on from Windows — and if so, is that Windows’ fault?
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Speed Read: Win10 Problems Rising, Report Claims
Sure Microsoft claims Windows 10 is a huge hit. Just last month, Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate VP for the Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft, said there are more than 200 million monthly active devices around the world running Windows 10 — almost double the 110 million announced in October
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Too Many Good Things: Ending Windows 10 Bloat
I was super excited to find an article about a week or so ago about how to reduce the Windows 10 footprint on your computer. Now, those of you that have been listening to me for a while may know that I have a problem — well, many problems.
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How Windows 10 Can Help Improve Business Processes
Windows 10 may just seem like the next major release of an old-time standard desktop operating system, but there is a lot more at play. Windows 10 is an entirely new version of Microsoft's standard desktop operating system. It’s also a bit of a microcosm of the greater Microsoft ecosystem.
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Making Your Way to Windows 10
As the dust settles around the Windows 10 release and the good, bad and indifferent new features have been picked over, it's time to answer the hard question: how do you move onto this latest version? While there are multiple answers, let's look at a few possibilities: 1.
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Top 10 Win10 Features #1: Update for Business
If everything succeeds for Windows 10, this will be the last Top 10 new Windows feature you will ever read. If it fails, this will certainly be the case as well. As of now, Windows is a continuously updated operating system.
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Things I Want You to Know About Windows 10
As you know by now, Windows 10 is out. And depending on who you believe, there were 16 million boxes installed the first week or 80 million boxes or every box and six or eight toasters.
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Top 10 Win10 Features #2: Business Store
“Store” is the worst name for a store. CMSWire is read by marketers, a great many of whom would heartily agree with me on this point.
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Top 10 Win10 Features #3: Azure AD Join
The idea that a business computing system built by Microsoft should enable organizations to store their employees’ personally identifiable information (PII) in the cloud isn’t something likely to inspire enthusiasm.
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Top 10 Win10 Features #4: One Place for Settings
Amid the more technically-oriented features — package management, Virtual Secure Mode, DeviceGuard — that I’ve chosen for what purports to be the final Windows Top 10 Features list of my career, you might not think that a feature as simple as putting all the client-side settings in a single panel
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Top 10 Win10 Features #5: The Unified Desktop
Let’s be clear at the outset as to what Microsoft gained and subsequently lost. Windows had won the war for the consumer desktop, and the war for the business desktop. To bother measuring desktop market share for Windows was about as pointless as to bother sampling Mount Rushmore for limestone.
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