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| | | Microsoft Is Now a Top Five PC Maker in the US Thanks to Surface | | The Verge | Microsoft has broken into the top five PC makers in the US for the first time. Market research firm Gartner revealed yesterday that Microsoft now holds 4.1 percent of the US PC market, edging out Acer for the fifth spot. It’s the first time Microsoft has entered the top five in the US, thanks to the company’s Surface devices. | | Google Cloud Adds Cloud Identity, Cloud IAP, and Secure LDAP | | VentureBeat | Google kicked off Next London — its annual conference centered around Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — with a slew of feature announcements yesterday, including organization policy restrictions and the broad deployment of Alert Center for G Suite. On the heels that news, it today took the wraps off of a new customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform, context-aware access for GCP, and secure lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) support for traditional apps and IT infrastructure. | | Microsoft Makes Its 60,000 Patents Open Source to Help Linux | | The Verge | "Microsoft announced yesterday that it’s joining the Open Invention Network (OIN), an open-source patent group designed to help protect Linux from patent lawsuits. In essence, this makes the company’s library over 60,000 patents open source and available to OIN members. Microsoft joining is a big step forward for both sides: OIN gets thousands of new patents from Microsoft, and Microsoft is really helping the open-source community that it has shunned in the past," writes Chaim Gartenberg. | | Top Cybersecurity Facts, Figures, and Statistics for 2018 | | CSO | Looking for hard numbers to back up your sense of what's happening in the cybersecurity world? CSO dug into studies and surveys of the industry's landscape to get a sense of the lay of the land — both in terms of what's happening and how your fellow IT pros are reacting to it. |
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| | | Google Authenticator Tips | | Tom Limoncelli's EverythingSysadmin Blog | Here are two quick (but useful) things you might not have known about Google Authenticator. | | How to Create a Dropdown List in Google Sheets | | MakeUseOf | In Sheets, you can easily restrict entries with dropdown lists. These dropdown lists can also be an easy way to make data entry faster and more streamlined. |
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| | | IT Jobs: 9 Notable Stats and Trends | | The Enterprisers Project | "What's the current picture for job hunters and hiring managers? Challenging. Let's examine stats on hot skills, hiring remorse, ageism, and more," writes Stephanie Overby. |
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| | | On-Demand Workflows in BetterCloud | | BetterCloud Help Center | Huzzah! This feature has been called a "game-changer" by our customers and it's finally here. No more waiting for an event to trigger a Workflow in BetterCloud. You can now run any Workflow on demand and take action immediately. Using this tool will allow you to create complex multi-step cross-connector Workflows that can be executed whenever you need them. | | Email Settings API to Be Shut Down on October 16, 2019 | | G Suite Updates | In 2016, Google announced the deprecation of the Email Settings API in the Admin SDK and encouraged people to use the Gmail API instead. This is a reminder that they are planning to turn down the Email Settings API on October 16, 2019, at which point any requests to the API will fail. | | New Team Drives Role and Names, Plus a Migration Update | | G Suite Updates | In September, Google announced that a new “Content manager” role was coming soon to Team Drives. These changes are now starting to take effect. Along with the new role, Google will also be updating the names of the existing Team Drives membership roles. |
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