Новости за 01.07.2019

Mozilla's Firefox took a user share beating for the second straight month, slipping under 9% for the first time since November 2018.

The best way for enterprises to shore up their data defenses is to make security as easy and automatic as possible – in other words, deploying platforms and solutions with robust security and privacy technologies built right in. That’s what enterprises get with Microsoft 365, which has a broad array of native security features that, with cloud-based delivery at the core, always stay current against ever-evolving threats.

Most employees, it turns out, don’t want to use new technology rolled out by their organization. The reality is that successful adoption of any new technology—including Microsoft 365, which brings a new way of working with a shift from desktop to cloud-based productivity tools—requires behavioral change.

“With virtualization and Microsoft solutions for automated maintenance and deployment … what used to be a four-day turnaround to resolve a computer problem may now take 10 to 20 minutes.”

As a technology leader in today’s modern workplace, you need to give employees the tools to work when, where, and how they want. 

“We believe that standardization and the cloud are central to providing us with a platform for innovation—that’s why we wanted to work with Microsoft. It gives us the tools we required to grow.”

Ready for the mobile security news that IT doesn't want to hear about but needs to? When security firm Positive Technologies started pen-testing various mobile apps, security holes were rampant.

Once upon a time there was a company with a few weeks left to live in desperate search of leadership and a good idea. That’s the Apple story that got us here:

How many bugs could a WinPatcher patch, if a WinPatcher could patch bugs?

Picture this: early 1980s, Alaska. Consultant pilot fish is ahead of the curve when it comes to networking PCs, and he and his colleagues keeping pretty busy with that. But given the climate (very low humidity during very long winters), static electricity is a big problem. They spend a lot of time giving instructions on how to avoid problems with static electricity, and most clients get static mats to alleviate them. 

Remember when tablets were hotter than hot and were going to replace PCs? Er, yeah, about that: I don’t think so.

Microsoft is the latest browser also-ran to tackle Google's leader, Chrome, by introducing anti-tracking expertise to Edge.