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When Online Services Turn Off – How To Protect Yourself
The “cloud”. It is one of those magical marketing terms, like “Web 2.0″. We’re supposed to believe that everything is magical in “the cloud”. That everything just works… in “the cloud”. Of course, in real life, we also know the saying… sh*t happens. And, it does. Just because something is cloud-based (which is just fancy-talk [...]
Is Windows 8 A Failure?
That’s the gripe. Windows 8 has pissed off a lot of people, making it perhaps the most divisive operating system it has ever released. The chief gripe is the new desktop. You’re pretty much forced to use the “metro” desktop rather than the traditional icon-based desktop and start menu. People don’t like that. Microsoft insists [...]
