Monday 31 December 2018
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Monday 24 December 2018
Apple in 2019: Expect more focus on enterprise identity, device ownership
If 2018 was the year Apple revamped its relationship with enterprise users, 2019 is likely to be year the company keys in on device ownership and identity in the workplace. In fact, Apple has been signaling this kind of focus for a while with a series of moves that have shifted how it handles hardware management and lay the groundwork for the year ahead.
Those seemingly unrelated moves will allow the company to strengthen its role in handling enterprise identity regardless of device ownership, allowing it to offer IT admins more flexibility and management options down the road.
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(Insider Story)Sunday 23 December 2018
Friday 21 December 2018
Thursday 20 December 2018
Blockchain in 2019 and beyond: 5 predictions
In 2018, blockchain made headlines again and again – mostly through the tumultuous cryptocurrency marketplace, where bitcoin and other digital tokens lost as much as 80% of their value. The crash wasn't pretty, and threatened to undermine the distributed ledger technology (DLT) underpinning bitcoin and other cryptocurrency.
While the past year has seen blockchain deployed in highly publicized proofs of concept and pilot programs, DLT remains largely unproven in production environments.
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(Insider Story)Wednesday 19 December 2018
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Monday 17 December 2018
Saturday 15 December 2018
Friday 14 December 2018
How to protect Windows 10 PCs from ransomware
CryptoLocker. WannaCry. Petya. Bad Rabbit. The ransomware threat isn’t going away anytime soon; the news brings constant reports of new waves of this pernicious type of malware washing across the world. It’s popular in large part because of the immediate financial payoff for attackers: It works by encrypting the files on your hard disk, then demands that you pay a ransom, frequently in Bitcoins, to decrypt them.
But you needn’t be a victim. There’s plenty that Windows 10 users can do to protect themselves against it. In this article, I’ll show you how to keep yourself safe, including how to use an anti-ransomware tool built into Windows 10.
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(Insider Story)Microsoft may pitch Windows 10 subscriptions at consumers
Microsoft may unveil Windows 10-Office 365 subscriptions for consumers that resemble the Microsoft 365 plans now pitched at enterprises.
Hints of a product tagged "Microsoft 365 Consumer" surfaced in a pair of help-wanted advertisements on the Redmond, Wash. company's job board. One ad, which sought a senior product manager, was posted Oct. 18; the other, for a product manager, appeared Dec. 12. Both positions are marketing spots.
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(Insider Story)Thursday 13 December 2018
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Thursday 6 December 2018
Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration guide
All good things must come to an end, and the reign of Windows 7 as an actively supported, good-enough operating system is no exception. While it may feel like you just finished the heavy lifting of migrating your Windows XP machines to Windows 7, it turns out that Windows 7 is now more than nine years old, at least two and a half versions behind Windows 10 (depending on whether you consider Windows 8.1 to be a version of Windows all its own), and approaching end of Microsoft support in 2020.
All of this is to say that you need a plan. Except in some edge cases, it makes little sense to spend the time and money to migrate from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, since that only buys you a couple more years of supportability. The smart money is on moving to Windows 10, buying everyone expensive Macs, or, gasp, deploying Linux on the desktop. And while small businesses might be able to buy everyone MacBooks or move to Linux, large companies with lots of software investments in the Microsoft stack will continue running Windows, thus leaving Windows 10 as the only option.
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(Insider Story)Head-to-head: Apple iPad vs. Microsoft Surface Go for Business
Tablets have gotten more powerful over the years, but even top-tier 2-in-1s like Microsoft’s Surface Pro and Apple’s iPad Pro are still a step away from replacing laptops for many business users. They do provide a very attractive alternative to lugging around a notebook on business trips, but these flagship tablets start at anywhere from $650 to $900 and can easily climb to $1,500 or more after you configure them and add in the cost of a keyboard case and stylus. That kind of expense is hard to justify for a device that’s secondary to the laptop a business worker needs for everyday use.
That’s where smaller second-tier tablets can come in. Apple’s 9.7-inch iPad and Microsoft’s new Surface Go for Business carry significantly lower price tags than the iPad Pro and the Surface Pro, yet they’re still powerful, well-built and ready for business. Can they replace a laptop entirely? Not for most people, but neither can their more expensive siblings. And for short trips, they do provide a lighter alternative that lets workers get the job done without overly burdening them with gear.
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(Insider Story)Wednesday 5 December 2018
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Monday 3 December 2018
Review: G Suite gets an AI boost
Google added a handful of new features to G Suite this summer, mostly AI-driven upgrades focused on collaboration. According to the company, G Suite users spend nearly three-quarters of their time creating and communicating with colleagues, so many of the recent updates are focused on helping these users save time when working together.
Some of the new features, for the moment, are available only via a G Suite Early Adopter (beta) Program, and we’ve noted that when discussing them. You’ll need an administrator role to take advantage of the beta features now — and a G Suite Business account ($10/user/month, twice the price of a Basic account) or Enterprise account ($25/user/month).
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(Insider Story)Sunday 2 December 2018
Saturday 1 December 2018
Friday 30 November 2018
Thursday 29 November 2018
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Monday 26 November 2018
Windows Hello for Business: Next-gen authentication for Windows shops
Authentication: the act of proving one’s identity to the satisfaction of some central authority. To most, this process means typing in a username and a password. It’s been this way for years and years.
But passwords — especially the passwords that most enterprises require, which have to be complex, with long strings of numbers and specially cased phrases with some (but not all! heavens no, not the one you want) symbols — are difficult to remember and often end up getting written down on sticky notes. Then you have to reset them every so often so that hackers and crackers are working toward moving targets.
Passwords can be leaked or hacked from the inside as well, as we have seen with numerous credential dump attacks over the past few years. And users can accidentally disclose their passwords if they fall victim to increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks.
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(Insider Story)10 highly useful add-ins for Microsoft Office
The tools available in Microsoft Office are highly versatile, but sometimes you want to do something that Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook can’t accommodate. Chances are good, though, that you can find an add-in that will give you that little extra something.
Hundreds of add-ins are available, but surprisingly few stand out. Here are 10 (in alphabetical order) that we think can be really useful for a lot of people. All of them install just like an extension for a web browser, and they’ll all give you a boost whether you’re using desktop Office apps or Office Online. Some require Office 365 subscriptions.
Boomerang
Developer: Baydin
For: Outlook
Works with: Outlook Online, Outlook 2013+ for Windows, Outlook 2016+ for Mac (requires Office 365 mailbox)
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(Insider Story)Friday 23 November 2018
Thursday 22 November 2018
Wednesday 21 November 2018
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Monday 19 November 2018
Saturday 17 November 2018
Friday 16 November 2018
Thursday 15 November 2018
AR in the enterprise: Tips for a better augmented reality app
Augmented reality is the next big thing — or one of the next big things, anyway. The technology, which overlays digital images on the real world, has a host of potential uses in the enterprise, from training tools to customer demos to collaborative design spaces.
Some AR applications rely on specialized hardware devices, such as Microsoft’s HoloLens headset, while others work with everyday smartphones. The inclusion of Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore development platforms in iOS and Android, respectively, has put AR-capable mobile devices in almost everybody’s hands.
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(Insider Story)Wednesday 14 November 2018
Tuesday 13 November 2018
Windows 10 October 2018 Update: Key enterprise features
The latest version of Windows 10 has many monikers. Its version number is 1809, its code name was Redstone 5, and its official name, announced by Microsoft at IFA Berlin, is the Windows 10 October 2018 Update.
It’s clear that this release was designed mainly to improve and tweak the operating system. Yet Microsoft did add several new features to it. Most are small, but some are major. Here’s a look at 10 new features that could come in handy for business users and IT pros.
(See the subsequent pages of this story for key enterprise features in earlier Windows 10 updates.)
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(Insider Story)Monday 12 November 2018
Sunday 11 November 2018
Friday 9 November 2018
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Wednesday 7 November 2018
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