July 1, 2013
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Linux Mint is my favorite desktop Linux. Thanks to Microsoft’s Secure Boot implementation, however, installing Mint, or any other operating system, on a new Windows 8 PC is a royal pain in the rump. If you’d like to avoid this annoyance, you might consider buying CompuLab’s forthcoming MintBox 2 with Linux Mint 15 pre-installed.
June 28, 2013
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It’s weird. Linux, which is Android’s foundation, has almost no malware to speak of. Trend Micro, however, predicts that there may be as many as a million Android malware threats by the end of the year. What’s going on here?
June 27, 2013
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This is not your dad’s Microsoft. In the last few months Microsoft has been refocusing on Web services and devices instead of its mobile operating systems, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 (WP8). Neither OS have been cutting the mustard in the market. Moving forward, I see Microsoft addressing its mobile OS issues in two ways.
First, in the long run, 2014 and beyond, I see Microsoft replacing RT and WP8 with Windows 8.1. As Ed Bott said, with Windows 8.1, Microsoft is aiming squarely at mobile devices. How can Microsoft do this with ARM dominating tablets and smartphones? By eventually replacing its ARM-powered RT devices with Intel Silvermont/Bay Trail tablets running Windows 8.1.
It makes sense. This new Atom-based, long-battery life processor family can give Microsoft a low-end tablet that can run “real” Windows instead of crippleware RT or the unpopular WP8. This would also save developers time. They can just focus on Windows 8.1 without worrying about the underlying chip architecture. They would be working once more with the familiar x86 architecture.
Microsoft’s mobile strategy: Where Android, iOS and Windows 8.1 fit in. More >
June 25, 2013
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There may be better personal cloud storage services than Dropbox, but few are as popular. Dropbox wants more though. It wants Dropbox to be your first choice for business cloud storage as well.
Integrate Dropbox into your Windows network with Active Directory. More >
June 25, 2013
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Nervous about the NSA, PRISM and your public cloud? Not sure you want to put all your data eggs in one Amazon Web Services zone basket? Then, maybe ownCloud’s just released enterprise version of its open-source cloud program, ownCloud 5.0 Enterprise Edition, is what you want need.
Want a cloud where you call the shots? Consider ownCloud. More >
June 24, 2013
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