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What we know about the Win10 version 1909 upgrade — and what you can do about it

Win10 version 1909 is an odd beast. The first of its kind. Billed as a feature update (read: version change) disguised as a quality update (read: pedestrian cumulative update), the general rollout that began on Tuesday seems to be progressing well.

Mind you, I don&t recommend that you install 1909 just yet. Like any Windows update, it needs time to ferment before consuming. Version 1909 has a particularly paltry —almost non-existent— list of worthwhile new features.

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Yes, Google's using your healthcare data & and it's not alone

Google is working with one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. to collect patient data on millions of Americansin 21 states and across 2,600 hospitals or clinics in order to analyze it and come up with advice for better patient care and cost cutting measures.

The project was reportedly revealed by a whistleblower who said the program, dubbed "Project Nightingale," involved Ascension & the largest Catholic health system in the world & and up to 50 million private medical records from healthcare providers.

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What you need to know about new data-security rules for business travel
From U.S. Customs agents to cybercriminals, everyone wants to copy the data on your phone and laptop. Herehow to protect your rights and also avoid industrial espionage.
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IDG Contributor Network: The Undead PC: Dell has the best PC sales in their history

[Disclosure: All of the vendors mentioned are clients of the author.]

I&m at Dell Technology Summit this week, and one of the interesting stats from Sam Bird, the impressive executive that heads Dell Technologypersonal systems unit, is that they&ve had the strongest sales year ever. Dell is only Number 3 in volume, but they are Number 1 with a bullet in revenue and profit.

This showcases that for companies that execute & including spending money on R-D and marketing & the PC business is as strong, or, in the case of Dell Technologies, stronger than itever been.

Letface it: The PCold days kind of sucked

I started as the lead analyst in operating systems for Dataquest back in 1994 and rose with the launch of Windows 95. Back then, people didn&t build their own PCs, and I was one of the first to take a motherboard, processor, hard drive and memory and build what I wanted. Laptop performance was a bad joke, battery life was measured in minutes and a lightweight laptop weighed around 6 lbs. That first PC I built never was stable, took me around two months (part-time) to configure, and the motherboard was held in the case with tape and rubber furniture feet because the mounting holes in the motherboard didn&t match the holes in the case.

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Hegot his number

This pilot fish confesses that there was a time when he was known to take out his frustrations on any hardware that might be within reach.

Which is the proximate reason a tech has to be called in one day to repair the phone sitting on his desk. The tech works on it for a while, then comes over to fish to announce, &Itfixed. Hold out your hand.&

Tech drops a bit of broken plastic into fishhand — it once served as the button in the cradle that opened and closed the line — with the comment, &You&re a mean man!&

Sharky knows you have some true tales of IT life that are off the hook. Send them to me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. You can also subscribe to the Daily Shark Newsletter.

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JNUC 2019: For enterprise pros, it's like the old days of Apple events

MINNEAPOLIS & &This reminds me of one of the old Apple events,& Appleone-time product manager of automation technologies, Sal Soghoian said as we entered the opening Jamf keynote speech at JNUC 2019earlier this week.

I couldn&t help but agree with him by the time the event was winding down.

Enterprise and Apple evangelism

All of the old Apple event ingredients were there: Enthusiasm, knowledge, curiosity, interest, excitement and for nearly all of the 2,500 Mac professionals at this year's show, the added attraction about JNUC is that they get to talk how they make their living.

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