Forget Windows 8: Give us Windows 7.8

Forget Windows 8: Give us Windows 7.8

A billion users don't have the right hardware to run Windows 8, even if they wanted to. Here's how Microsoft could give them the best of Win8

NoSQL is no Oracle killer

Over time, NoSQL and big data will slow Oracle RDBMS's long-term growth, but it won't deliver a death blow anytime soon -- except, perhaps, to Oracle RAC...  more

Windows 8 review: Yes, it's that bad

A desktop OS for tablets and a tablet OS for desktops, Windows 8 is guaranteed to disappoint nearly everyone... more

Cheat sheet: Windows 8 vs. Windows RT

At first glance, the two new Microsoft operating systems look to be the same, but they're actually quite different... more

The lesson from the Amazon outage: It's time to layer the cloud

If cloud services were layered architecturally, providers would be able to better contain the effects of failure on the critical services ... more

Fighting cancer with 3D big data visualization

In correlating huge patient and gene data sets, interactive 3D visualization lets researchers accelerate analysis and open up data to broader range of scholars... more

How to move a data center without having a heart attack

Before the event, consider everything that can go wrong, make contingency plans, exploit opportunities to upgrade, and label everything... more

Amazon's DRM drama: Whose Kindle is it anyway?

A Kindle customer thought she owned her e-books -- until Amazon erased them overnight... more

Advice Line by Bob Lewis

Learn from Apple: Having fans means you're always forgiven

What lesson can IT take from Apple's new Lightning... more

Enterprise Windows by J. Peter Bruzzese

Microsoft Surface and Group Policy don't mix -- now what?

Policy management in the post-PC world will be... more

Off The Record by Anonymous

The pennywise perils of clinging to ancient tech

An IT contractor travels back in time to figure out a database problem on a decrepit system... more

InfoWorld Tech Watch by InfoWorld Tech Watch

Don't just blame the cloud for the Amazon Web Services outage

No technology or vendor is perfect, but the... more

Security Adviser by Roger A. Grimes

Your quick guide to malware types

Think you know your malware? Here's a refresher to make sure you know what you're talking about --... more

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