Computerworld - The success of Windows RT, and to a lesser extent Windows 8, will hinge on the quality and quantity of apps in the Windows Store next month, analysts said today. And they don't like what they've seen so far. "History ...
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IDG News Service - Citrix Systems has started to detail the future of Windows desktops and applications in its virtual environments with tech previews of Excalibur and Merlin, the first versions of its Project Avalon. Project Avalon, ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will announce an upgrade program for its next Office suite in five weeks, according to a report by ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley. The program will offer free or discounted upgrades to Office 2013 -- the name of the ...
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Macworld - Following in the footsteps of Google and other services, Dropbox this weekend enabled two-factor authentication to bring enhanced security to its users. While Dropbox was not among the services compromised in the ...
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Microsoft today said it will ship a preview of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7 next month, but would not commit to a timetable for a final release. "We will release a preview of IE10 on Windows 7 in mid-November, with final ...
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Monday, Microsoft unwrapped the next edition of its Office money maker at a press event and simultaneously launched a public preview for users to try out now. CEO Steve Ballmer touted the new software as "the most ambitious release of ...
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Microsoft must aggressively price its Office 365 subscription plans, perhaps as low as $2 a month, to convince consumers that it's better to rent software than to buy it, analysts said today. When CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives ...
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IDG News Service - Red Hat plans to release an enterprise grade version of the OpenStack open source software for hosting IaaS (infrastructure as a service) deployments. The company has posted an unsupported preview edition of the package, ...
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Computerworld - Google is upgrading its Search Appliance for the enterprise in an effort to help workers find information stored anywhere in their organizations. Google Search Appliance 7.0 was unveiled today and will be available Oct. 16 ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will walk away from the "Metro" tag it's been using for over a year to describe the new environment and apps in both Windows 8 and Windows RT, the company confirmed Friday. "We have used Metro style as a code ...
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The next version of Ubuntu Linux will include a new feature that can incorporate commonly used Web apps directly into the user's desktop, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at OSCON on Thursday. The new feature, called Ubuntu ...
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Microsoft updated its Visual Studio software Wednesday so that the IDE reflects many of the changes that challenge developers, including mobility and cloud computing. "From our perspective, the world of software development is changing, ...
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PC Advisor - Camtasia Studio 8 is able to create powerful, professional and interactive videos and multimedia projects that can be used for education, training, marketing and sales. The number of file formats supported for both import and ...
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The next version of Microsoft Office, unveiled on Monday, is a dramatic departure from the software that millions of users have come to know, built for the cloud and for touch-based computing and packed with features that make it more ...
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Soft4Boost's Photo Studio delivers exceptionally simple image editing tools in one, comprehensive tool set. FRESH MEADOWS, NY, December 22, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Soft4Boost, a group of highly trained programmers, have released Photo ...
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