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	Windows 8 previews to go dark in 3 weeks Microsoft's free previews of Windows 8 will expire in January, giving users about three weeks to upgrade to a paid copy or face hourly restarts. Read More WEBCAST: Verizon Machine-to-Machine Communications Transform Business Learn how Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology is fueling such applications as business intelligence (BI) and the smart electrical grid. And learn how to get started deploying M2M technology. Learn More In this Issue Preston Gralla: Year in review: The most popular posts on "Seeing through Windows" Consumer Reports makes case for Windows 7 PCs Three New Year's resolutions for PC users INSIDER What SharePoint 2013 means for the data center Preston Gralla: Two new reports says Windows Phone 8 still can't gain traction Preston Gralla: Microsoft lawyer: Google is an anti-democratic Internet "emperor" Ousted Windows exec Sinofsky to teach at Harvard WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Corporation Smarter Business Requires Intelligent Systems This paper discusses the growing adoption of intelligent systems and the role Microsoft, through its Windows Embedded, Windows Azure, and other technologies, can play in developing these systems. Read Now. Preston Gralla: Year in review: The most popular posts on "Seeing through Windows" This year was a rocky one for Microsoft, in which it released one of the most controversial versions of Windows in its history, its Windows chief left the company, and its mobile strategy continued to struggle. I covered all that, and also some non-Microsoft topics in my blog this year. Here are my five most popular blog posts of the year. Some you might expect, but there are some ringers that will surprise you. Read More Consumer Reports makes case for Windows 7 PCs Windows 7 may be the better choice as a PC operating system on new systems than the just-released Windows 8, Consumer Reports magazine said this week. Read More Three New Year's resolutions for PC users A new year is upon us, and that can mean only one thing: resolutions. For most folks, these tend to be of the "get in shape" or "quit smoking" variety. But if you're a PCWorld reader, consider adding some PC-specific resolutions to the mix. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Corporation Office 365: Why the Time is Right for Cloud-based E-mail Is it expensive to run and time-consuming to manage? If your answer is yes, maybe it's time to consider a new approach--a cloud-based solution. Dean Murray of CDW shares insights and expertise on Microsoft 365 and Exchange online, and how CDW can assist you in migrating to this new cloud-based e-mail system. Learn More. INSIDER What SharePoint 2013 means for the data center Migrating from SharePoint 2010 is doable, but that's not true, unfortunately, from the 2007 version. Read More Preston Gralla: Two new reports says Windows Phone 8 still can't gain traction It's getting to sound like a broken record: Two new reports find that Windows Phone 8 still isn't making headway, with a market share of between 2% and 3% in the U.S. and with only slightly higher numbers throughout the world. Will the struggling smartphone operating system ever take off? Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft lawyer: Google is an anti-democratic Internet "emperor" Microsoft's assault on Google continues, with a lawyer who represents Microsoft  charging in a New York Times Op Ed piece that Google is the "emperor" of the Internet with dangerous data-collection and privacy-invading policies. And it's not just any lawyer charging this, but a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, the government agency charged handling privacy issues. Read More Ousted Windows exec Sinofsky to teach at Harvard Steven Sinofsky, the former Microsoft executive ousted as the head of its Windows group five weeks ago, yesterday said he would teach at the Harvard Business School this spring. Read More
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