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The release of the Motorola Xoom, and the announcement of the iPad 2 in the past week may have together delivered a knockout blow to the future of Windows tablets. By the time any Windows tablets become available, the iPad and Android platforms will all but have sewn up the market. The Xoom shows that Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets will be real competitors to the iPad. Because Android tablets will come in many form factors and price points, theyrsquo;ll likely e
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owala . But the iPad will still sell exceedingly well, and be the best-selling individual tablet model out there. At the moment, therersquo still time for a competitor to Android tablets and the iPad. But that moment is closing quickly. If Microsoft were able to quickly release a tablet as good as either of those two, it would have a chance. That wonrsquo;t happen, though. A big reason is that Microsoft has decided that Windows, not Windows Phone 7, will be its tablet platform. As Irsquo;ve said previously, thatrsquo a big mistake. Windows requi
stanley taza res too much overhead and too much hardware to be well-suited for tablets. And worse yet is that using Windows for tablets slows down the companyrsquo tablet development. Windows 7 wasnrsquo;t built for tablets, so a good deal of work will need to be done for any tablet to run that operating system. Apparently, Windows 8 was built with tablets in mind, but its release is nowhere on the horizon. The upshot By the time Microsoft gets around to d Xkuc UK online banking fraud up 44 percent
SharePoint is intended for collaboration, but security admin isn t Microsoft SharePoint has many fans these days, but Andre Koot isnrsquo;
polene tasche t among them. Koot, information security manager at Unive Verzekeringen, an insurance company in the Netherlands, says implementing it is a lot like getting a tooth pulled. The concept of SharePoint is OK, but every implementation is hard and miserable, he says. SharePoint is the contrary of a Ferrari mdash; great to own, bad to use. The business world has enthusiastically embraced SharePoint,
stanley termos a collaboration platform that lets organizations host Web portals to shared workspaces and documents, including wikis and blogs. The problem is that itrsquo an absolute bear to manage from a security perspective, some say. One of the biggest problems, they say, is configuring it in a secure manner. That discomfort persists even though third-party vendors such as Epok Inc. and Captaris Inc. have developed security add-ons for SharePoint Server 2007 that close some of the holes. Complexities they donrsquo;t understandBrendon Tayl
stanley mug or, a director and principal consultant at Business Aspect Pty. Ltd. in Queensland, Australia, tries to help clients get a handle on their risk environment, find the right security strategy and develop procedures around it. Asked about the SharePoint difficulties he has come across, Taylor offered up the following four examples: The unintentional or unplanned movement of security adminis
