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After Amazon, how many clouds do we need?
GigaOM

With news that Google(s goog) and Microsoft(s msft) plan to take on the Amazon Web Services(s amzn) monolith with infrastructure services of their own, you have to ask: How many clouds do we need? This Google-Microsoft news, broken this week by Derrick Harris,  proves to anyone who didn’t already realize it that Amazon is the biggest cloud computing force (by far) and, as such, wears a big fat target on its back. With the success of Amazon cloud services, which started out as plain vanilla infrastructure but has evolved to include workflow and storage gateways to enterprise data centers, Amazon’s got everyone — including big enterprise players like Microsoft, IBM(s ibm) and HP(s hp) — worried. Very worried. These vendors are betting big that they can give Amazon a run for its money and that their cloud services will help them retain existing customers and (knock wood) win some newbies. Microsoft built Azure as a full-fledged platform as a service, but in the fac

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HP poised to axe up to 25,000 jobs
MacDailyNews

[cfsp key="google_adsense_300x250"]“Hewlett-Packard Co. is considering cutting as many as 25,000 jobs, or 8 percent of its workforce, to reduce costs and help the company contend with ebbing demand for computers and services, people briefed on the plans said,” Aaron Ricadela reports for Bloomberg. “The number to be cut includes 10,000 to 15,000 from Hewlett-Packard’s enterprise services group, which sells a range of information-technology services and has been beset by declining profitability, said these people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t final and may change,” Ricadela reports. “Meg Whitman, chief executive officer since September, is seeking to reverse the growth slump that led to the ouster of her predecessor, Leo Apotheker. The company’s PC sales are dropping as consumers favor tablets, such as Apple Inc.’s iPad, and it has been slow to adapt to the shift toward cloud computing, away from the IT services Hewlett-Packard pro

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One Final Post About SecureBoot?
insanitybit

I did a post highlighting the positive side of things and then a very negative M$$$-bashy type post. I want something I can point to that at least makes an attempt at fair and balanced with enough information for the reader to make a decision so here it is. What Is SecureBoot? SecureBoot is a UEFI protocol that blocks anything that isn’t digitally signed from running before the operating system starts. Essentially, untrusted code can not start before trusted code. This directly addresses an entire class of malware and attacks that we already see on systems in the real world. On a SecureBoot system the malware could not start up because it is not digitally signed. Windows 8 (currently in Release Preview) uses SecureBoot by default on systems that have “Windows 8 Approved” hardware. This means that, by default, these systems will only boot code that’s been digitally signed. You can disable SecureBoot on x86 devices but not ARM. So How Does Linux Fit Into This? Lin

Day 42: Hopeful about E3 and still sick
Jenna Is Me

Still sick. Head aches and stomach muscles are beat from all the coughing. It suuuuucks! But what can i do? So yea.. Talked with my brother about stuff today. If i feel up for it, i’m gonna go to him tomorrow to watch some E3 announcements. I’m hoping for some Wii U launch titles, some PS4 stuff, and hopefully a word from crytec about time splitters 4 (Kind of doubt it though) and some surprises. It’ll be fun for sure. Nintendo always puts up a good show on E3, and i’m even interested in what Microsoft and Sony’s gonna come up with this time. Fun times to be had, for sure. Woke up from a nap about 30 mins ago or so, and found myself thinking about Astrid Lindgren. If i ever get around to it, it would be fun to do a review of some of her stuff and my memories of her from my childhood, Nostalgia Critic style. Sounds like it would be a fun thing to do. Anyhow.. I’m still beating this cold. Hopefully, i’ll feel better tomorrow. And if i get the pow

E3 2012: Christmas is Coming (For Gamers).
Writer of Words
Recurring Dream and Cat Paws
Small Town Revelations
Netflix gobbles Apple share to take lead in U.S. online movie business
MacDailyNews
Gears of War:Judgement revealed, and it´s coming to xbox 360.
knowyourgaming
Pachter Says E3 2012 “Will Be One Of The More Boring Ones”
My Nintendo News
Creating the ASP.NET External or FTP Server Image Source In Microsoft Report
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Gnome 3.6 is Getting SkyDrive Support
The Lazy Geeks

If you follow this site you may not be used to this kind of article but for Linux users out there this is sort of a big deal. The desktop Environment Gnome, version 3.6, will be getting Microsoft Skydrive support. Debarshi Ray, a developer for the GNOME Project has announced on his blog that support for SkyDrive will be put into the daily builds of the GNOME Documents app. The ability to add your Windows Live account was already available in GNOME but now the added ability of direct access to your SkyDrive makes it even that more enticing. With this additional feature GNOME Documents will have direct access to documents stored on your SkyDrive. This is a big deal for a few reasons. First off Microsoft’s SkyDrive is a nice free cloud storage solution that lacks proper integration with Linux. This isn’t a surprise really since Microsoft isn’t known for playing nice with Linux in general. Another and less important reason why this is awesome is because its nice to have a

Bold Call: Microsoft To Pass Android, Grab No. 2 Spot In Tablets Behind Apple
Contra237's Blog

Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty upped her sales projections for the tablet computer market Thursday, and argued that Microsoft will grab the number two spot in the market, after Apple iPad and ahead of tablets running Google‘s Android software, with the launch of Windows 8 later this year. Huberty and the tech team at Morgan Stanley are now estimating shipments of 133 million tablets in 2012, up 57% from their original estimates; and 216 million tablets in 2013, up 112%. No surprise there, tablet sales have been growing fast — despite high-profile stumbles by Hewlett-Packard and Dell — thanks to demand for Apple’s iPad tablet computer. The bold call: Microsoft will grab a substantial chunk of the market with the introduction of Windows 8 later this year. “Our survey suggests 25% of users expect to buy Windows 8 tablet and Office is a key feature, especially for those considering their first tablet purchase,” Huberty and her team wrote in an analysis of the market released Thursd

Should I Buy? – Catherine
buythatgame

For some people, just hearing that this game was made by Atlus is reason enough to buy this game. See, the developers have a certain reputation. They’re known for making very difficult JRPGs, specifically two series. Megami Tensei and Persona. Both are different flavours of weird and are known for different things, but this time around instead Atlus have switched genres to bring up Catherine, which in terms of narrative structure more closely follows the standard set by the Persona franchise. But instead of JRPG this time around we have a puzzle platformer with sheep as its main motif. Yeah. Also this is the first time I’ve noticed the constant reuse of voice actors between projects. Apparently it was quite deliberate this time around, as the actors were chosen because their previous roles suited these ones. Which is why it’s pretty easy to hear who’s who. There’s a galumphingly large couple of paragraph at the end about which game I found out these people

SCCM 2012 videos – MMS Digital Experience
Phyllis in IT

I was searching high and low for good SCCM 2012 videos, I couldn’t find them much on YouTube but I think this link is cool. The site contains videos which tells you about SCCM 2012, what the best IT practices are and stuff. Most of them are 1 hour sessions long but they are pretty informative. http://www.mms-2012.com/ Registration is free for this site. Just click on “Click Here To Watch Keynotes & Sessions On Demand” Very interesting stuff. Check it out.

Do Not Track On By Default In IE10
insanitybit

Internet Explorer 10 is the browser shipping with Windows 8 (currently in Release Preview) and it’s got an interesting feature. Do Not Track is a new would-be standard for telling advertisers not to track you online. Microsoft has stated that it will be enabled DNT for IE10 by default. The Importance Of Privacy Every single user should have complete and final control over their data. No one should be able to track you if you don’t want to be tracked – not the government and not corporations. I hold this to be fundamentally true. Do Not Track does not actually stop anyone from tracking you. It “asks nicely” for them to stop tracking you and they have no legal obligation to care. Still, as DNT is incorporated into modern browsers it will hopefully become the standard and it could be enforced both by browsers (blacklisting ads that don’t comply) and the law. The Big Problem I’m new to blogging, and while I don’t own this domain or use Google

Microsoft rolls out more social Bing search
TechInUs

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft on Friday rolled out a revamped Bing that includes insights from Facebook and Twitter in the biggest overhaul of the search service since its launch three years ago. “Most things in life are better with people you trust,” Microsoft said in a release announcing that the changes promise in May have arrived. “The new social features in Bing make it easy to exchange ideas, share opinions and take action, giving searchers the same confidence they get from bouncing an idea off a friend.” Google in January meshed posts from its social network into search results based on a similar belief that people value input from friends or others they respect. The new version of Bing features a “social sidebar” that will list Facebook friends who may know something about a query topic, according to Microsoft. Microsoft has been doggedly working to increase its share of a lucrative Internet search market dominated for years by California-based Go

THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN
Re-play Gaming

Yes it’s Christmas time for gamers…it’s E3 time! Seriously though, for me there is something about E3 that really does strike the same chord with me as December 25th did when I was a young boy. It’s essentially Christmas time for twenty-something guys who live alone and spend their time playing video games…except instead of getting presents, you get the promise of presents to come. With only 7 days to go, e3 2012 is upon us. Personally I always get very excited during the run up to E3, I know of many people who don’t want anything to do with it and dismiss it as a glorified hype fest. There is undoubtedly some truth to that viewpoint, after all these kind of events are practically designed to pull the wool over journalist’s eyes, booths are lit with dazzling studio lights, flashy logos everywhere, booth babes vying for every sexually repressed games journalist’s attention to flog their wares (figuratively speaking of course). But beneath

Dell Optiplex GX620 Intel Pentium 4 2800 MHz 40Gig Serial ATA HDD 1024mb DDR2 Memory DVD ROM Genuine Windows XP Professional + 17″ Flat Panel LCD Monitor Desktop PC Computer Professionally Refurbished by a Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher
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Dell Optiplex GX620 Intel Pentium 4 2800 MHz 40Gig Serial ATA HDD 1024mb DDR2 Memory DVD ROM Genuine Windows XP Professional + 17″ Flat Panel LCD Monitor Desktop PC Computer Professionally Refurbished by a Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher Rate This Product : The Refurbished Dell Optiplex GX620 desktop PC & 17″ Flat Panel LCD delivers powerhouse computing that’s ideal for everyone. The Refurbished Dell Optiplex GX620 comes with a Intel Pentium 4 2800 MHz processor, and the Genuine Windows XP Professional Operating System along with word document, spreadsheet application & a shortcut to Microsoft Free virus protection. This desktop computer also includes 1024mb of DDR2 memory, a 40Gig Serial ATA hard drive, DVD ROM optical drive and a NEW keyboard / mouse. This desktop comes fully loaded with Microsoft Windows XP Professional! This package will arrive with an Original Installation Disk and has been recently restored with Windows so you will be the first to use i

Could IE explorer be a safe environment
dakrizzz

So, it seems to be. The next Microsoft browser takes by default the feature “Do Not Track”, which is very interesting to keep safety in our computers… Found here: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/internet-explorer-10-takes-the-lead-in-browser-privacy-2012061/  PS: I left you with an image I found while I was looking for an IE image hahahahaha