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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

percent of computer users still are on Windows 7 — even though Microsoft no longer supports it for free. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. No harm, no foul. Try Mint out.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the business of Windows

The Verge

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. And I definitely wanted to know about the decision to run Android apps on Windows. Nadella also mentions “aggregators” in the context of the Windows store.

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Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers for Its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M in Advanced Research Contracts for Its Labs Division

CTOvision

With the first-of-its-kind deal with Dell in 2013 , in which Invincea became the only advanced threat protection solution to ship straight from the factory on all Dell commercial devices, shipping on over 60 million devices over three years. Follow Invincea: Invincea Blogs: [link] /. For more information, visit [link].

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What’s the best student laptop? We asked students

The Verge

The Dell XPS 13 is one of the best laptops for high school and college students. Microsoft Surface Go 2 ($399): a solid Windows tablet with a built-in kickstand. Max mostly uses his laptop for Google Classroom applications, including Gmail, Slides, Google Docs, and Google Sheets. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

Key marketplace players were EMC (before the Dell acquisition), NetApp, IBM, HP (before they became HPE) and Hitachi. In fact, expanding legal and regulatory requirements are now the driving force behind operational needs to execute real-time retrieval of complex data assets (i.e., These needs mean that Cloud storage 2.0

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Technology Short Take #39

Scott Lowe

Also from the same folks is a version of cloud-init for Windows instances in cloud environments. Operating Systems/Applications. Test your knowledge of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems by seeing how many of these less commonly used UNIX commands you recognize. Check this out. Technology Short Take #27.

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Technology Short Take #76

Scott Lowe

I mentioned in a tweet a few weeks ago that I ordered my new corporate laptop, a Dell Latitude E7370 (which will run Ubuntu 16.04). Operating Systems/Applications. Simon Sharwood of El Reg has the details on a Windows Server 2016 Hotfix for Update Rollup 1 (how’s that for a mouthful?). Servers/Hardware.

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