The path to Microsoft's success: Kill the Windows brand

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	Preston Gralla: The long-range path to Microsoft's success: Kill the Windows brand Windows may be the software that helped gain Microsoft gain worldwide dominance, but if the company wants to thrive in the future, the Windows brand may need to die. Microsoft would still build Windows operating systems, but would emphasize the Microsoft brand instead, and cut prices drastically for Windows licenses. So conclude several analysts, and they may well be right Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Eliminating the Challenge of Remote Backup In today's global economy, many companies are increasingly distributed. That puts IT in a precarious position, especially when it comes to backup processes. Providing IT services to remote locations generally requires investment in local servers, storage, and networking. Read Now In this Issue Darlene Storm: Some cops are stunningly clueless about basic cybersecurity and how the Internet works Robert L. Mitchell: Forget the resume: Recruiting search engines build Web dossiers about you Sharon Machlis: Tableau dataviz moves to the cloud JohnWThompson: Infrastructure performance management: The final piece of the puzzle Sharky: Well, he SAID there weren't any lights WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now Darlene Storm: Some cops are stunningly clueless about basic cybersecurity and how the Internet works Some cops and LEA working "intelligence," investigating cyberterrorism and cybercrime are stunningly clueless about cybersecurity and even how the Internet works. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Forget the resume: Recruiting search engines build Web dossiers about you Thanks to a new generation of Web crawlers used by recruiters, the Web is the new battleground for portraying yourself to potential employers. What kind of profile will they build about you? Suddenly, what you put out there matters. Read More WEBCAST: PC Connection How Lenovo Enhances Your Windows 8 Experience Learn about the innovated devices that Lenovo designed to take full advantage of the new touch interface of Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro. Learn more. Sharon Machlis: Tableau dataviz moves to the cloud Tableau Software is launching an enterprise cloud service based on its Tableau Server dataviz software. Read More JohnWThompson: Infrastructure performance management: The final piece of the puzzle IT infrastructures are more crucial to running a business than ever before. End users expect access to their applications and data anytime, anywhere. IT is expected to keep the infrastructure up and running and performing optimally 24/7. At the same time, IT infrastructures are becoming increasingly complex through layers of abstraction which raises the chance that 'ghosts in the machine' will be harder to find and will have a more significant impact. So, the question IT must answer is: How do you holistically manage performance across your entire IT infrastructure? Read More Sharky: Well, he SAID there weren't any lights User calls this help-desk pilot fish: "My desktop can't connect to the wireless network!" But fish knows there's supposed to be a wireless access point in the next room. Can you go and check on the WAP? he asks. Read More
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