Lenovo to flush 'crapware' from its consumer PCs after Superfish sin

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	Lenovo to flush 'crapware' from its consumer PCs after Superfish sin Lenovo will immediately begin reducing the amount of "crapware" on its consumer PCs, a move triggered by last week's admission that adware pre-loaded onto the company's machines posed a critical security threat. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems   Secure application delivery for a mobile workforce Empowering people to use Windows applications and native mobile apps on any type of device—with full security Read Now In this Issue Acer goes all in with Windows 10 smartphones From Microsoft: Two new Lumia smartphones to upgrade later to Windows 10 Bloatware free Windows computers Microsoft SharePoint coming up short for most enterprises, study finds WHITE PAPER: IBM The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Hadoop Solutions In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of enterprise Hadoop solution providers, we found that in the Leaders category, Amazon Web Services led the pack due to its proven, feature-rich Elastic MapReduce subscription service; View Now Acer goes all in with Windows 10 smartphones While Acer didn't embrace Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.1 OS for smartphones, it's warming up to Windows 10. Read More   From Microsoft: Two new Lumia smartphones to upgrade later to Windows 10 Microsoft today announced two new Lumia smartphones running Windows Phone 8.1, which will be upgraded to the cross-platform Windows 10 later in the year. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM The top five ways to get started with big data Despite the increased focus on big data over the past few years, most organizations are still talking about what big data is rather than focusing on what problems big data can address. Read Now Bloatware free Windows computers The Lenovo Superfish fiasco illustrates how dangerous the pre-installed software on a Windows machine can be. Here I discuss options for starting off with a clean copy of Windows, both versions 7 and 8. Also, some tips for keeping it clean. Read More   Microsoft SharePoint coming up short for most enterprises, study finds SharePoint installations at enterprises have been doomed largely due to senior management failing to really get behind the Microsoft collaboration technology, according to a new study by AIIM, which bills itself as "the global community of IT professionals." Read More
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