Office 365 is cloud-based, but does not require use of the cloud; like you, I am not a fan of putting my data on the cloud, so I don't even though I have multiple 365 subscriptions (one Home Premium and one for work). There...
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Heck, MS imports the people from India through visas. I blame Windows 8 and that blue ribbon in Office on these imports which was reinforced by Ballmer's total lack of vision and reality. India has a pervasive wide spread...
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Microsoft has employed Akamai's Linux-based servers to protect its Microsoft.com Web site and reduce the site's vulnerability to viruses, worms and denial of service attacks. That said, if all products which are available...
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MS has got to be kidding. I, and most people/companies I know, have NO intention of using the "cloud". Apparently MS is not considering the vast differences in internet speeds (download and upload) across various geographic...
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How many of these H1Bs know it? maybe they get a 1 day course in India. And employers are looking for people with these skills? So they want H1Bs who DON'T HAVE THE SKILL. Why is that? Why because if they have to allow...
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This is another (among many) reason to totally avoid Microsoft products.
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If it truely is "Personal" use instead of for work, then there's absolutely no reason to use it. LibreOffice is $0 dollars/year. And for most personal uses - you'll never be lacking. Use the $70 for...
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thancks again and do you have any other research sugjestions for hacking my firewall
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Licensing for Windows(Operating Systems) and other required software applications still apply to virtual desktops.
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Lockheed's move into the critical infrastructure makes sense, given the pull back in defense spending. But it's also likely to be a good way for industry to get up further up to speed in some of the cyber tech that the govt....
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We heard from Defense Department CIO, Teri Takai, via email, this afternoon, in response to this article. Her message was short, but worth sharing: "Thank you for working this. This is a great message for...
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I agree. NIST has been leading the way on this for a long time. With DoD on board, it just makes the case that much stronger. As a result, life will be much simpler at DoD.
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Thankfully it has a limited one year warranty and will be replaced, and mine could be an anomaly, but this is a disturbing lack of product reliablility for such an expensive product especially compared to the reliablility...
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Do I understand this correctly -- that if you're not interacting with your phone for some set period, there must be something horribly wrong? Sounds to me like "a good day."
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What do you think is the magic price here? Has Google reached it yet?
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>They need to make a categorical statement that they won't examine your information in Drive. I'd like to see that too, but I suspect it won't happen. Drive users, however, can still encrypt files locally and upload...
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This decision marks an important inflection point for the US federal marketplace. By accepting the NIST Security Standards, the DoD is demostrating strong support for a government-wide IT management and governance paradigm....
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Good luck you'll have a 6 hour wait time for the DB to mount with 250GB in memory if you restart the sql instance.
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>I think a good operational stance is to not trust any entity but instead follow the money.
This explains perhaps why intelligence budgets are classified.
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If implemented, attack detection mode would almost certainly generate enough false positives that it would have to be shut down. Emergency services operators would get tired of the robo calls for help that turned out to...
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As a developer / architect, we have to learn a wide variety of different environments, and when we have multiple confusing sets of standards we have to meet, depending on the customer being one federal agency or another,...
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