Big PC makers aim Android at the heart of Microsoft

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	Preston Gralla: Big PC makers aim Android at the heart of Microsoft   Android has long dominated Windows on mobile devices, but now PC makers are doing the previously unthinkable: Aiming it straight at traditional PCs, the heart of Microsoft's core business. Will Microsoft be able to survive this latest assault on Windows? Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW Cloud Economics This paper assesses the economics of the cloud by using in-depth modeling, and then uses this framework to better understand the long-term IT landscape. View Now In this Issue Jonny Evans: 6 reasons you'll visit Apple retail in 2014 Darlene Storm: Could a $150,000 enforced bug bounty put zero-day exploit brokers out of business? Sharky: Welcome to 'management by looking around' WHITE PAPER: VCE Vblock Helps Eclipse Resurrect Intellectual Property Building an Agile, Cost-efficient Business using a Virtualized Data Center. Learn More. Jonny Evans: 6 reasons you'll visit Apple retail in 2014 Apple has "big plans" for 2014 company CEO, Tim Cook says, fanning speculation as it prepares to unleash some shiny new toys: so here are 6 reasons anything new it does introduce will get most people to visit an Apple store in 2014. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com   5 Steps to Better Sales Performance: How to Coach Your Team In 5 Steps to Better Sales Performance we reveal the proven methods the best sales managers rely on to close the sales performance gap between average performers and All-Stars. Download now. Read now! Darlene Storm: Could a $150,000 enforced bug bounty put zero-day exploit brokers out of business? There are 'at least 58 vulnerabilities targeting Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, or Adobe' on any given on any given day; these zero-days are sold by exploit brokers and cyber criminals. NSS Labs says the answer is to have an enforced bug bounty program that pays out $150,000 per exploit. Read More   Sharky: Welcome to 'management by looking around' Call center has a blind user who gets by fine with a PC configured with a screen reader -- until the day a supervisor calls this IT pilot fish over. Read More
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