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| | | | | Windows by the Numbers: Windows 10 Rolls On Past 70% | | Computerworld | According to U.S. analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10's share jumped by 2.8 percentage points, the most since January, and ended October on 64% of all systems. When figured as a fraction of Windows-only machines, Windows 10 accounted for 72.2%, a record for the five-year-old OS. | | Best Practices for Software-as-a-Service Operations, a Report by Forrester Research (eBook) | | Forrester Research | In this recent report, Forrester Research outlines the growing need for a more sophisticated approach to SaaSOps. Forrester interviewed IT leaders from some of the world’s largest companies to outline best practices for mastering SaaS operations in multi-SaaS environments. | | Intel Enters the Laptop Discrete GPU Market With Xe Max | | Ars Technica | During an extended product briefing, Intel stressed that the Xe Max beats Nvidia's entry-level MX 350 chipset in just about every conceivable metric. In another year, this would have been exciting—but the Xe Max is only slated to appear in systems that feature Tiger Lake processors, whose Iris Xe integrated GPUs already handily outperform the Nvidia MX 350. | | Sneaky Office 365 Phishing Inverts Images to Evade Detection | | BleepingComputer | A creative Office 365 phishing campaign has been inverting images used as backgrounds for landing pages to avoid getting flagged as malicious by crawlers designed to spot phishing sites. These inverted backgrounds are commonly used as part of phishing kits that attempt to clone legitimate login pages as closely as possible to harvest a target's credentials by tricking them into entering them into a fake login form. |
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| | | How to Build a Daily Writing Habit | | The Sweet Setup | There are many benefits to writing beyond building an audience. Even though it definitely sucks at times — okay, most times — I often joke that the only thing worse than writing is not writing. Writing helps with your overall creativity. Writing brings clarity to your ideas, your thoughts, even the decisions you need to make. | | 6 Energy-Boosting Tips to Combat Pandemic Fatigue | | Fast Company | Since the pandemic swooped in, life got a whole lot more exhausting, but it doesn’t have to stay that way. Try out these supercharged strategies I use with my business coaching clients to get them more energy, optimize their performance, and increase productivity—no coffee required. |
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| | | Accept Knocks in Bulk in Google Meet | | Google Workspace Updates | You can now accept all pending knocks in bulk in Google Meet. Admitting participants or students all at once helps limit interruptions during the video call. Note, only the meeting organizer can see or approve requests to join a meeting. |
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