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	The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked a tech revolution On December 9, 1968, Dr. Douglas Engelbart addressed a packed theater at the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, demonstrating a new computing platform that heralded advancements from the computer mouse to videoconferencing. Forty-five years later, we're still reaping the benefits of his vision. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE The Sky's the Limit for Eclipse Aerospace and VCE Learn how Eclipse was able to virtualize the entire data center without any business disruption, dramatically reduce IT infrastructure hardware costs and easily migrate SAP business applications, Siemens Teamcenter and NX CAD server software. Learn More In this Issue 10 old-school IT principles that still rule How to create an automatically updating Google spreadsheet Microsoft retracts Windows 7 PC end-of-sales deadline Microsoft ends Windows 7 retail sales The worst IT project disasters of 2013 Dell's Chromebook is a sign of shakier times for Windows The NSA tracks World of Warcraft and other online games for terrorist clues Microsoft's Patch Tuesday reinforces the value of software upgrades One in four cloud providers will be gone by 2015 WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Backup and Recovery Changes This IDC Whitepaper provides an overview of the forces driving change within today's IT organizations and data centers and discusses how backup and recovery can enable or hinder broader IT infrastructure and business transformation. Learn More 10 old-school IT principles that still rule These graybeard IT tenets still reign -- when applied in their modernized guise. Read More How to create an automatically updating Google spreadsheet Tired of finding, copying and pasting data into spreadsheets? With just a few lines of code, you can set up a self-updating spreadsheet in Google Docs that fetches and stores data for you, as this Facebook example shows. Read More Microsoft retracts Windows 7 PC end-of-sales deadline As quietly as Microsoft defined the dates it would stop selling Windows 7, over the weekend it revised its end-of-sales deadlines again, saying it had made a mistake. Read More Microsoft ends Windows 7 retail sales Microsoft has quietly ended retail sales of Windows 7, according to a notice on its website. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS How Social Media Can Shape Perceptions of Product Quality Descriptive statistics, text analytics and social network analysis provide a way for to determine how customers purchasing decisions are affected by what they see on the Internet. This paper describes how analytics can be applied to social media for monitoring and addressing perceptual quality. View Now The worst IT project disasters of 2013 Trends come and go in the technology industry but some things, such as IT system failures, bloom eternal. Read More Dell's Chromebook is a sign of shakier times for Windows Dell's debut of a Chromebook, an inexpensive laptop that runs Google's browser-based Chrome OS, is a sign that the platform has gone mainstream, an analyst argued today. Read More The NSA tracks World of Warcraft and other online games for terrorist clues American and British spy agencies apparently believe there are real-life terrorists lurking among the elves, gnomes and the trolls of online gaming worlds. Read More Microsoft's Patch Tuesday reinforces the value of software upgrades The latest round of monthly patches from Microsoft illustrates the need for organizations to move from older versions of Microsoft software if they haven't done so already. Read More One in four cloud providers will be gone by 2015 Cloud adopters face serious risk in the next two years because of the strong possibility that their provider will be acquired or forced out of business, according to Gartner. Read More
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