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3 hrs ago | Softpedia

Netwrix Auditor Freeware Edition 4.0

Netwrix Auditor Freeware Edition is a handy and reliable software that helps you to monitor your IT infrastructure, detect all user and administrative changes and customize alert notifications to warn you when changes are made to sensitive data.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Startups, Intel, Microsoft

7 hrs ago | CNet News

Microsoft Windows Azure Updates for Mobile Back-End Development Go Live

Microsoft announced a series of updates to its Windows Azure Mobile Services to support mobile backend development, including custom API and Git support.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Tellme, Startups, Android

11 hrs ago | Microsoft Download Center

Windows Embedded Compact 7 Monthly Update May 2013

Note: There are multiple files available for this download. Once you click on the "Download" button, you will be prompted to select the files you need.

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Related Topix: 9, CPU, Science / Technology, Computers, Microsoft, Startups

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Typophile blogs

Italics in Wordpad: Is this

Cambria was designed by Jelle Bosma . Not sure what Tiro is doing in the font properties.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups

The Code Project

Screenshot using the Magnification library

We may know there are many methods to take a screenshot of the desktop. But sometime we may want to capture the desktop without some specified windows.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Typophile blogs

OK, more

Cambria was designed by Jelle Bosma . Not sure what Tiro is doing in the font properties.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups

Softpedia

DiskFresh 1.0

Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / XP 64 bit / 2008 / Vista 64 bit / 7 / 7 64 bit / 2008 64 bit / 8 / 8 64 bit / Server 2012 DiskFresh is a handy and reliable application designed to refresh the signal of local HDDs by performing a read / write operation on each sector.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Fri Jun 14, 2013

The Motley Fool

Microsoft Faces a Huge Risk to the Windows Brand -- Again

At a time when the price an OEM pays for a competitive operating system is close to $0, Microsoft is having an increasingly difficult time selling OS licenses in mobile form factors.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Google, Ipad

PC Magazine

Sites to Find and Download Drivers

Are out-of-date or missing device drivers causing problems with your PC? Here's how to find and update the right drivers for you.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

MSMVPs

Important! Discontinuation of Support for Windows XP and Office 2003

Dear CCH Customer: CCH will begin phasing out support of Windows XP and Office 2003 in our software products beginning in tax year 2014.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Microsoft Office

US Tech

TwinCAT 3.1 from Beckhoff Adds Valuable New Features for eXtended Automation

As a continuation of the company's next generation PC-based control software, Beckhoff Automation has announced the release of TwinCAT 3.1 with new features for eXtended Automation.

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Related Topix: Automation, Camshaft Software, Video Games, CPU, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, Programming Languages

Mashable

8 Ways to Customize Your Windows Desktop

Most of us spend a significant part of the day staring at computer screens. And while the Internet offers a myriad of cat videos , food porn and other distractions, your desktop can remain rather bland at best and infuriatingly cluttered at worst.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Packaging World

Embedded PC from boosts small controller performance

This affordable Embedded PC integrates a CPU, numerous connectivity solutions and optional interfaces, a power supply and a direct I/O interface for Beckhoff I/O systems, all in one compact housing.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups, Robots

MSDN Blogs

Security Series #4: The Threat Landscape - Targeted Attacks...

Targeted attacks are an evolution of espionage to target a specific organization in order to steal information, modify information, or destroy information or systems.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Thu Jun 13, 2013

Microsoft Download Center

Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant for IT Professionals BETA

The Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant provides end user sign-in capabilities to Microsoft Online Services, such as Office 365.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Science / Technology, Microsoft Office

CNet News

Picking Five Favorite Innovations at HP Discover

NEWS ANALYSIS: Here are my five favorite technology picks that were center stage at the HP Discover conference and are proof it's no longer old-style business as usual at HP headquarters.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Google, Startups, Microsoft, CIO News

Linux Today

GNOME 3, Windows 95 Disconnected

About a week and a half ago, I was nearly taken-in when an item appeared on The Register that tied recent Linux desktop woes to behind the scenes moves by Microsoft to enforce patents against GNOME.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, Linux

CIO

Nationwide Makes SSDs Standard on PCs, to Employee Applause

Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- Nationwide Insurance is moving off Windows XP and the misery of an eight-minute boot-up time for some 40,000 users.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks

Business Journal

Best Buy to add Microsoft Windows mini-shops inside its stores

Best Buy Co. Inc. on Thursday announced a deal with Microsoft Corp. to create Windows Store mini-shops inside hundreds of Best Buy stores, building upon a similar partnership it previously launched with Samsung.

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Related Topix: Best Buy, Retail, Startups, Napster, Science / Technology, Microsoft, The, Video Games, Deep Silver, Microsoft Office

MSDN Blogs

Windows Embedded Compact 2013: a developer's perspective

What is Windows Embedded Compact 2013 ? It is just the latest, and of course greatest, version of Microsoft's Windows Embedded Compact componentized OS, formerly known as Windows CE.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU, Toledo, OH

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