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Online Anytime Upgrade options will be available online from Microsoft in 13 markets, including the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, the UK, and much of Western Europe. A more limited selection of shrink-wrapped Anytime Upgrade packages will be available in retail stores worldwide at similar pricing. These upgrade packs are limited to the following scenarios: Starter or Home Basic to Home Premium; Home Premium to Professional; and Home Premium to Ultimate.

Last year, many businesses deferred the purchase of new laptops in favor of smartphones, and why not? Offering phone, calendar, email, IM and Web access, they’re arguably the most practical business tools.

Microsoft released an emergency patch on Tuesday to protect Internet Explorer users from a hole in technology used to build ActiveX controls and other web application components that has been targeted in attacks.
A critical patch for all versions of IE will protect consumers, while a security update for Visual Studio will help developers fix the controls and components they built that could be affected.

When relationships are strained, it’s tempting to blame the people involved (e.g., IT professionals are socially awkward, control-oriented, technophiles while business leaders are bombastic, tactically oriented opportunists.)
But when the problem is deeply entrenched–like the ongoing tensions between business and IT–it’s not the people, but the system that is to blame.

The emergence of Internet-based social media has made it possible for one person to communicate with hundreds or even thousands of other people about products and the companies that provide them with good and services like never before.

How do you break free from the curse of knowledge? Spending a lot of time with customers helps. The more you listen to what the customer says and doesn’t say, the more you can make sure that your intuition is attuned to the customer’s knowledge base. Recognizing the curse helps as well. Make a regular habit of asking questions such as, “Is this our view, or the view of our target customer?”

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Brands are wonderful assets when they capture the essence of a product, service, or event succinctly, meaningfully, and with endurance over time. Consumer product companies have brand guardians to protect those conceptual assets. But when branding becomes a fad, it can reduce communication.

Accordingly, our brains just aren’t wired to focus intently on more than one thing at a time, and that means stressed managers and employees could be making easily preventable mistakes. Ultimately, that’s a waste of everyone’s time.
But it’s hard for employees to focus when companies are shrinking their workforces and forcing everyone to take on more duties. Yet, is right that having employees tackle many tasks at once is actually counterproductive, managers should devote more time to helping them tune out extraneous digital noise in order to pay closer attention, in sequence, to the tasks at hand.

802.11n standard will be finalized by September, according to the chairman of the IEEE 802.15 working group on Personal Area Networks. Wireless N routers will keep working like always but they’ve run out of letters to stick onto 802.11 for new wireless standards, so they’ll be confusingly called things like 802.11ac.