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• The million-dollar question about Google's Pixel 6

  13-07-2021 16:21
  
  Man, the Pixel 6 sure is shaping up to be one heck of a phone.Now, don't get too excited yet. Google's next Pixel flagship is still far from being official, and we probably won't hear a peep of confirmation about it (or be able to buy the blasted thing) until sometime 'round October.But, well, it wouldn't be a Pixel phone if it didn't leak like an elderly badger's mouth after a busy trip to the dentist. (Hey, even those dudes need the occasional crown.) And based on everything we're hearing abo
  
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• Apple is changing its MDM system in iOS/iPadOS 15

  13-07-2021 14:03
  
  If your business uses Apple products, it’s very likely you also make use of its mobile device management (MDM) protocols to manage your fleet. Be forwarned, there are big changes coming with iOS 15.Putting your device in control
  Apple announced changes to its MDM system at WWDC 2021, introducing a new approach it calls "declarative management." It's designed to give each device more power and more responsibility, and replaces the server-heavy reactive MDM approach in use today (where
  
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• To patch or not to patch: That is the question

  13-07-2021 13:00
  
  Security is more important than ever—and ransomware is bigger and badder than ever.  Barely a week goes by without a major new ransomware attack.One way you can slow down, if not stop, such attacks is by keeping your mission-critical applications and operating systems up to date. There’s only one little problem with that. Those patches, especially Microsoft's Windows patches, can be more trouble than they’re worth. What’s a business to do?To read this article in ful
  
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• Say goodbye to all that: Microsoft ends Windows-as-a-Service

  13-07-2021 12:00
  
  Microsoft's once-vaunted Windows-as-a-Service (WaaS) is in tatters. Windows 11's introduction last month — and more importantly its proposed servicing and maintenance scheme — did that.The fact that Microsoft bent to the seemingly inevitable should be credited, even if the company took years to reach a cadence that many customers had pleaded for almost immediately. But the failure of the Windows-as-a-service model likely also has a downside, chief among them the tainting of that str
  
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