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Computerworld Microsoft Feb 19, 2016 Microsoft Azure continues open source love affair Microsoft has been aggressive in embracing open source technology on its Azure cloud platform, and that continued Wednesday with the launch of several new features powered by open source projects. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • New beta build of Windows 10 offers Edge, Cortana improvements • Preliminary data shows small Windows 10 gains after upgrade offered to older PCs • Why the Department of Defense just started deploying Windows 10 • How I 'upgraded' my mom's Windows XP computer • Defense Department to put Windows 10 on 4M computers • The best antivirus apps for Windows PCs and Androids • Microsoft fixes sleep deprivation issues for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 • PCWorld Show Episode 4: FBI vs. Apple, Microsoft's modular PC, and a Japanese PC supergroup White Paper: HGST Transforming the Data Center with Unified Cloud-scale Data Protection and Management Massive data growth and tight budgets are forcing IT to find more effective storage strategies to meet capacity, performance and data protection requirements. Read More ▶ New beta build of Windows 10 offers Edge, Cortana improvements After a long wait, Microsoft is giving Windows Insiders some major new features to play around with, after spending the past couple months making backend improvements to its mobile operating system. Read More ▶ Preliminary data shows small Windows 10 gains after upgrade offered to older PCs Windows 10 usage has increased since Microsoft began serving the OS as an automatic upgrade to PCs running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. But the rate of growth has been small. Read More ▶ Why the Department of Defense just started deploying Windows 10 The agency will deploy the OS to 4M devices by early next year, the largest enterprise roll-out ever for Windows 10. Read More ▶ How I 'upgraded' my mom's Windows XP computer Hint: It has nothing to do with Windows 10. Read More ▶ Defense Department to put Windows 10 on 4M computers In a major move, the U.S. Department of Defense will standardize approximately 4 million devices on Microsoft's new Windows 10 operating system. Read More ▶ The best antivirus apps for Windows PCs and Androids AV-Test, a well-respected independent IT-security institute, announced the best antivirus award winners. Read More ▶ Microsoft fixes sleep deprivation issues for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 Early reports from Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 owners today said that a firmware update issued Wednesday fixed their devices' sleep problems. Read More ▶ Video PCWorld Show Episode 4: FBI vs. Apple, Microsoft's modular PC, and a Japanese PC supergroup This week we discuss the ramifications of the FBI's fight with Apple, a crazy modular desktop PC from Microsoft, and the possible rise of a new Japanese PC supergroup. Watch Now ▶ White Paper: OpenText Enterprise-Level PDF Accessibility: Drivers, Challenges and Innovative Solutions In today's digital age, web content accessibility for visually impaired individuals has become a matter of huge importance. Read More ▶ Transformation That's All About the Customer Check out our February Digital Magazine, with a cover story on how organizations are focusing their re-engineering efforts on customer demands. Also inside: How humanitarian groups are using big data to improve response efforts, and the pros and cons of an open-source career. The magazine also includes News Analysis, Opinions and Shark Tank -- all free for download with registration. View the magazine here ▶ Subscribe to Computerworld Daily News Sign up for our popular, twice-daily tech news newsletter. You'll get Computerworld's up-to-the-minute top stories of the day, both first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon (ET). We deliver breaking news on topics like the latest security threats and the newest mobile devices, in-depth features about enterprise technologies and IT careers, and authoritative analyses of moves made by tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM and HP. Sign up now ▶ Subscribe to CSO's Security Awareness Weekly Sign up for a weekly roundup of features, news, tips and analysis on security awareness delivered to your inbox on Mondays. Sign up now ▶ Computerworld Job Board Search multiple listings now and get new job alerts as they are posted. Check them out now ▶

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