Windows XP April 2014 deadline fast approaching
Organisations that haven’t migrated off the Windows XP operating system have until 8 April 2014 before support and patching ends.
Organisations that haven’t migrated off the Windows XP operating system have until 8 April 2014 before support and patching ends.
The latest in ICT systems can be of no use when your staff don’t know how to use them effectively. With the right investment in training staff, even the slightest bit, can result in surprising gains and improved productivity.
As many in the business, education and government sectors wring their hands over the impending demise of Microsoft's venerable Windows XP operating system, the IT media is offering helpful advice on moving to the more recent, apparently quite good MS operating system, Windows 7.
Apple iOS is the fastest growing mobile operating system in 2013, with iPhone users growing from 14 per cent of worldwide market share in Q1, 2013 to 19 per cent in Q3, according to GlobalWebIndex.
Chances are that you may have heard that April 2014 marks the retirement party for our long-toothed operating system friend Microsoft Windows XP.
New Zealand firms need to carefully plan and manage their operating system upgrades, particularly as many organisations seek to move off Windows XP before support from Microsoft ends in April 2014.
Here’s what’s noteworthy in the upcoming version of Microsoft’s browser.
Significant increase in infection is curious because Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs will not launch autorun.inf files
Microsoft's future hinges on attracting developers to build Windows 8 apps. But by offering financial incentives, supporting a range of programming languages and allowing developers to write code once for multiple devices, those developers may soon follow.
Windows XP's decline has accelerated and the decade-old operating system shed its largest ever chunk of market share in October, according to data from a web measurement company.
Windows Intune, Microsoft's Web-based PC management and security platform, may not get the same level of attention as cloud services like Office 365 or Windows Azure, but Microsoft is betting big on Intune to be the cloud service that will facilitate IT's evolving job of remotely managing PCs.
A mish-mash of security issues came up this week, everything from how to protect virtualized environments to a system that protects copper in utility sites from robbery and a story about digital certificate thefts.
A "minor" college class project intended to demonstrate how first-time users fared in doing basic tasks on different <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a> has triggered an Internet wave of mockery, condemnation and invective. In a 10-minute video, the <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> 4 and the Samsung Focus running <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> Phone 7 are rated superior to the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a>-based HTC Thunderbolt and a RIM BlackBerry Storm.
Microsoft showed Thursday the next version of its Windows OS at a press event in Taipei, unveiling a completely new tile-based interface that it hopes will be better suited for the emerging world of tablet PCs.
Oklahoma City is using technology that not only watches for signs of any hacker activity on its municipal government network, but monitors employee online behavior to assure no one's going out of bounds.