Preston Gralla is a contributing editor for Computerworld, and the author of more than 35 books, including "How the Internet Works," "Windows XP Hacks," and "Windows Vista in a Nutshell." He has written about technology for more than 20 years, and has published in numerous national magazines and newspapers, ranging from Computerworld to USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, and CIO Magazine. Seeing Through Windows
Five Reasons a Windows Fan Also Loves the Mac
After recently living with a Mac for two weeks, long-time PC user Preston Gralla has come up with five good reasons a Windows person can still love a Mac.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer should skip the pep rally speech this year and deliver some straight talk on Windows 7 and Vista.
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The beta of Vista's new service pack keeps most of its changes under the hood, so if you're expecting visible changes you'll be disappointed.
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Computerworld's Preston Gralla concludes that Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system shows great promise in his hands-on review of the pre-beta.
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Free and low-cost downloads that will make your PC run more quickly and smoothly, help you use the Internet more effectively, and push Windows to work at optimum speed with the interface you want, not what Microsoft gave you.
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Google's new Chrome browser uses simplicity and some clever new features to bring Web surfing into the 21st century.
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Service Level Management Best Practices Life Cycle Overview - Improve Service Levels
Best practices for Service Level Management (SLM) is a process for consistently meeting customer requirements and delivering on IT's promises. See the steps required to ensure high-quality SLM.
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Keeping Your Members Safe from Online Scams and Predators
In order to keep fraudsters out, romance sites must deploy effective solutions that look at information independent of what is supplied by users. A device fingerprinting solution such as iovation ReputationManager™ provides unique insight into the computers being used to create multiple accounts and exposes hidden device-account relationships that identity-based fraud solutions often miss.
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