Can you live without Windows?

Opinion
Jun 20, 20052 mins

* Can you live without Windows? * What’s the best place to stop spyware? * Journalism turned upside down * Survey outlines top concerns

Can you live without Windows?

Kevin Tolly this week considers what life would be like on a desktop operating system other than Microsoft Windows and without Office 2003.

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Face-off: What’s the best place to stop spyware?

Once you’ve made a decision to root out spyware on your corporate computers, it’s really just a question of how. This week’s Face-off tackles that question, with Webroot CEO C. David Moll arguing that desktops are the right place and Blue Coat Systems CTO Vilis Ositis arguing that gateways are better.

Desktops

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Gateways

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Journalism turned upside down

Newspapers and other publications have been noodling this Web thing for years now, but they still have not found the best way to make money from it. Scott Bradner takes a look at Google, Amazon and The New York Times – and what a collision among them might mean for online news.

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Survey outlines top concerns

Network World’s annual NW500 survey shows that security, compliance and upgrading data centers are on the minds of IT managers everywhere. Editor-in-Chief John Dix explains.

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