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By Chris Duckett Takeaway: Microsoft has updated SkyDrive to support Windows desktops, OS X and iPad — but at the same time has revised the storage limit from 25GB to 7GB, unless you claim to reserve the existing 25GB limit. Users of Microsoft’s SkyDrive who signed up when the service offered 25GB of storage will

By Justin James April 10, 2012, 12:21 PM PDT Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decisions when applying Microsoft’s April 2012 patches in your organization. One nice thing about the April 2012 set of patches is that it seems like the issue where opening files on network shares

By Justin James March 13, 2012, 1:19 PM PDT Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s March 2012 patches in your organization. In one of the more surprising Patch Tuesdays in recent memory (not including December’s, because they are usually light), we have only one

By Thoran Rodrigues February 24, 2012, 6:00 AM PST Takeaway: Thoran Rodrigues says that while true cloud software is necessarily SaaS, not all software sold as a service really fits into the true cloud model. What are the distinguishing characteristics? The definition of software-as-a-service (SaaS) predates the rise of cloud computing, and it relates to

By Justin James February 14, 2012, 1:55 PM PST Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s February 2012 patches in your organization. One unique thing about this month’s Patch Tuesday is the rash of update rollups for the second-level Windows Server products like Home Server

Source I bare bad news Windows XP users. Come 2014 Microsoft have recently announced that they shall be finally stopping support for the OS all together after a 13 (and a bit) year lifespan. Users are expected to upgrade to a newer system such as the upcoming Windows 8 (no release date as of yet)

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: For the first time in years, PCs grabbed the spotlight at CES 2012. Ultrabooks were everywhere, but was it an innovation win or an innovation failure? Photo credit: James Martin/CNET Among the 30-foot displays of massive TVs and the now endless parade of new smartphones and tablets, it’s easy to forget

By: Robert Keith Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is an average month—the vendor is releasing 13 bulletins covering a total of 19 vulnerabilities. Three of this month’s issues are rated ‘Critical’ and they affect Media Player, Microsoft Time ActiveX control, and the public issue regarding TrueType fonts (currently

By: Paul Thurrott In these run-together, workaholic days, I occasionally miss the irresponsibility of youth, when I could while away a day tossing around a ball with friends and pausing only to lie in the grass and try to find familiar shapes in the clouds. Today, the cloud has taken on a whole new meaning.

By Justin James Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s October 2011 patches in your organization. I think this may be the most pleasant Patch Tuesday of 2011. The out-of-band patches were minimal (just an update to root certificates to handle another Iranian-hacked root server).