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Windows 8: Ushering in an End of an Era and Preventing Missile Testing in...
Photo by br1dotcom Last week, Microsoft reminded users they will cease offering Extended Support for Office 2003 and Windows XP on April 8, 2014. With over 38% of PC users (according to data from Net...
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Windows 8: Future or Failure?
Windows 8 Start Screen There’s been a lot of talk this week about the future of Microsoft’s new Operating System (OS) Windows 8 and whether Microsoft jumped the gun on redesigning the user interface...
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Happy New Year from BlackPoint IT!
We hope you enjoyed the holiday season and all the chances to celebrate they afford. But now the holidays are over and it’s time to get back to work. For many companies, the New Year also begins a...
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XP End of Life: May The Force Be With You
If you are one of the 31.22% of users who still run the Microsoft XP Operating System (OS), you are about to be in for the fight of your (computer’s) life. Unless you’ve been stuck in the sand dunes...
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XP End of Life: Be the Wolf of Main Street
We may not all seek the excesses Jordan Belfort did as depicted in the recent Scorsese flick ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ but that doesn’t mean we don’t want the best for ourselves, our families, and...
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XP End of Life: The Patronus Charm Can’t Save You, but These 5 Charms Can
We’ve been talking about the upcoming Windows XP End of Life for some time now (and a lot more lately due to the end of support for that OS to come April 8th), but if the latest figures are still to...
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Windows 8.1 – Get Connected!!
Last month we offered a series of hands-on demo sessions for our clients interested in learning Windows 8.1. Attendees learned the basics like how to customize your desktop and what Charms are to...
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R.I.P. XP
It’s the end of an era. As of April 8th, Microsoft says it will no longer provide security updates, issue fixes to non-security related problems or offer online technical content updates. The company...
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Internet Explorer Hack: eXPoses XP users to their first big threat
5/1 Update: Microsoft announced this morning they have pushed through fixes for this issue-even to XP users. Those who have automatic updates enabled don’t have to do anything further. For those...
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Windows 2003 End of Life
Similar to the termination of Windows XP earlier this year, Microsoft is ending all support for Windows Server 2003 next July. Businesses that continue to use unsupported software after Microsoft has...
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