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Month: January 2014

Running Windows XP after April? A couple of suggestions for you

Running Windows XP after April? A couple of suggestions for you

Yesterday on Twitter, I said the following: Suggestion… If you have an XP system that you ABSOLUTELY must run after April, I’d remove all JREs, as well as Acrobat Reader and Flash. This was inspired by an inquiry from a customer about Windows XP support that arrived earlier in the day. As a result of that tweet, three things have happened. Many people replied “unplug it from the network!” 1 Several people asked me why I suggested doing these steps. I’ve begun…

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What did I learn from Nest?

What did I learn from Nest?

So today Google announced that they will pay US$3.2B for Nest Labs. Surely the intention here is to have the staff of Nest help Google with home automation, the larger Internet of Things (IoT) direction, and user interfaces. All three of these are, frankly, trouble spots for Google, and if they nurture the Nest team and let them thrive, it’ll be a good addition to Google. Otherwise, they will have wound up paying a premium to buy out a good company…

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Bimodal tablets (Windows and Android). Remember them when they’re gone. Again.

Bimodal tablets (Windows and Android). Remember them when they’re gone. Again.

I hope these rumors are wrong, but for some odd reason, the Web is full of rumors that this year’s CES will bring a glut of bimodal tablets; devices that are designed to run Windows 8.1, but also feature an integrated instance of Android. But why? For years, Microsoft and Intel were seemingly the best of partners. While Microsoft had fleeting dalliances with other processor architectures, they always came back to Intel. There were clear lines in the sand; Intel…

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