Microsoft shuts down retail chain, takes $450M charge
Microsoft on Friday said it would close its chain of retail store and take a $450 million charge against earnings to account for the permanent...
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iOS 14: How to use widgets on iPad and iPhone
At this year’s WWDC, Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 introduced two concepts that may be of use to enterprise professionals: “widgets,” which let you keep some key...
Is 7-Eleven’s mobile app a way to minimize COVID exposure?
COVID-19, and the desire to avoid getting it, is already impacting mobile payments, especially NFC payments known as contactless. Those payments happen in-store, mere inches...
How to work across time zones in Outlook
I work in San Francisco with people based in or near Boston, Sydney, Paris, London, Bangalore, Auckland, Amsterdam, and — oh yeah — San Francisco....
Memory-Lane Monday: Self-inflicted
It’s the 1980s, and this pilot fish works in a group at a big financial services company that provides 24/7 support. That means taking turns...
WWDC reaction, exciting iOS 14 updates
Hopefully you caught last week’s episode with our WWDC predictions… This week, we’re back discussing which WWDC announcements we’re most excited about. From Apple Silicon...
Microsoft strips manual deferrals of future feature upgrades from Windows 10, cites ‘confusion’
Microsoft eliminated the ability to manually defer feature upgrades from reaching unmanaged PCs running Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise and Education, according to recently revised documentation....
Microsoft nixes update deferral settings, but gives us a TargetReleaseVersionInfo
At AskWoody, we’ve been lamenting the sporadic lack of update deferral settings in Win10 version 2004 for some months. At times, the disappearance of the...
WWDC: Apple brings Face ID and Touch ID authentication to Safari
It will soon be possible for enterprise workers, partners and customers to casually access web-based sites and services using biometric ID, with Apple set to...
Why AMD’s energy efficiency milestone is important to the emerging cloud desktop
AMD this week announced it had exceeded its goal to increase energy efficiency 25-fold by 2020. Called the 25×20 goal, it has been a driving...