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	Richi Jennings: Huge Chromebook sales growth. Will 2019 be the year of the Linux desktop? Shut up and give Google your data. The Chromebook platform goes from strength to strength. Market researchers say they're selling faster than ever, predicting 11 million sales (in... err... 2019). And it's not just consumers buying them. Some enterprises are choosing to move most of their Windows users to Chrome OS -- motivated by the XP end-of-life and cost savings. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the wisdom of Chromebooks and Chromeboxes in the enterprise. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Asset Management: Ensuring Today's Assets Today's trends like BYOD and SaaS are new and exciting in terms of how they will help make our jobs more productive but they also introduce challenges as it relates to software licensing. Find out more - it's time for your organization to look at how to better manage software assets. Read Now In this Issue Jonny Evans: Quick guide to Microsoft's Office for iPad Preston Gralla: Windows Phone share dips worldwide -- should Microsoft bet big on Android? Jonny Evans: Review: Apple's recent iWork improvements Sharky: Cloudy with a chance of meatheads WEBCAST: CDW Mobile Apps and Devices Slash Customer Cycle Time Consolidated Engineering Laboratories' field employees used to collect data on triplicate forms that were sometimes hard to read and difficult to manage. After procuring iPad devices from CDW and integrating mobile apps with back office systems, the company boosted productivity and reduced their customer cycle time by as much as 7X! View Now Jonny Evans: Quick guide to Microsoft's Office for iPad Microsoft has promised regular Office for iPad updates, so future features should reflect the increasing capabilities of iPad range, but the company has made a pretty good start with this release, subject to a few annoying (and unecessary) limitations designed to drive Office 365 sales. Read More   Preston Gralla: Windows Phone share dips worldwide -- should Microsoft bet big on Android? The latest sale figures show Windows Phone market share falling across the world. Is now the time for Microsoft to beef up its commitment to Android? Read More   WHITE PAPER: SugarCRM CRM's Dirty Little Secret: How to Avoid CRM Sticker Shock When making a CRM decision, it is important to ensure your deployment will not be hit with hidden fees or other extra costs that reduce the return on investment. This study reveals the total cost of ownership (TCO) among the four leading midmarket CRM solutions. View Now>> Jonny Evans: Review: Apple's recent iWork improvements Apple's much-improved iWork is now a perfectly credible cross platform, device-agnostic productivity solution that will achieve what most casual users need while also being compatible with Microsoft Office. Read More   Sharky: Cloudy with a chance of meatheads This communications company uses cloud technology a lot for its services. But now management wants this pilot fish to verify that everything has been sent up to the cloud correctly -- and they want him to do it the hard way. Read More
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