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Apple CEO Tim Cook frequently makes the claim that his companygreatest contribution to humankind &will be in the health area.&
And it's taking a number of steps to make that effort a reality.
When will becomes when
Cook likes to point to the ECG function in Apple Watch, the companyhealth-related research tools and its software based solutions. (The latter include things like the Health app, Activity Monitor, Cycle Tracking, medical apps and advanced sensor designs.)
All these tools are useful, but are they really a great contribution to humanity when such a small percentage of the people on the planet can access them?
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At Ciscobig event this week, they launched a new processor (which I&m sure excited the chip companies), a nice new line of hardware and a new OS. But the biggest announcement & and the one least talked about & was their strategic change allowing customers to mix and match these components and create their own solutions.
They weren&t the first, on the processor side. AMDdifferentiator, for instance, was to offer semi-custom parts. They were followed by both Qualcomm and Intel, who created custom parts for Microsoft and their latest Surface X product, as well as their coming dual-screen Surface Neo offering.
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One morning Wilma, the print shop manager at a beer distributor, discovers that her computer has a virus. Itno big deal — sometimes bad things happen to good computers — so she cleans up the system and gets on with her day.
But a few days later the system is infected again.
Considerably more annoyed this time, she contacts Betty (the companysole IT person) to get some assistance and make sure the system is 100% clean. After disinfecting the system, Betty checks the browser history and finds that someone has been making late-night visits to X-rated websites.
The question then becomes, Who is using company resources to watch porn? At most companies, suspicion would immediately fall on the nighttime cleaning crew. But the print shop is located in the warehouse, to which the cleaning crew doesn&t have access.
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It's no big secret that Google has a pesky little habit of, y'know, cold-blooded murder.
You know what I'm talking about, right? Everyone's favorite Android keeper has had more than a few instances of giving us some promising new product, selling us wholeheartedly on its commitment to said product and its lofty visions for its future — and then, once we've all become thoroughly invested in adopting saidservice and integrating it fully into our lives, changing its tune and abandoning the thing entirely.
Hell, there are entire websites devoted to memorializing killed Google products — the aptly named Google Cemetery and Killed by Google databases.
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December brings peace and joy & well, maybe & but at least Microsoft has provided us with a relatively easy Patch Tuesday update. There is an urgent update to Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and three critical updates to the Windows platform that will require some attention this month. In addition, we have cumulative updates for the .NET and SQL server platforms that will require some testing before general deployment. That said, I think that 2020 will bring many interesting Patch Tuesdays with Microsoftnew &staged& feature releases already included Windows 10 1909. You can find out more here on our Readiness blog infographic.
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Microsoft has begun forcibly upgrading Windows 10 PCs running version 1809 with the latest, the November 2019 Update, aka 1909, which the company launched less than a month ago.
"We will slowly start the phased process to automatically initiate a feature update for devices running the October 2018 Update (Windows 10, version 1809) Home and Pro editions," Microsoft said in a Dec. 5 message on Windows 10 1909's page of the Windows Release Health Dashboard. "We are starting this rollout process several months in advance of the end of service date to provide adequate time for a smooth update process."
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