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| | | | | Windows by the Numbers: Windows 10 Rolls On Past 70% | | Computerworld | According to U.S. analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10's share jumped by 2.8 percentage points, the most since January, and ended October on 64% of all systems. When figured as a fraction of Windows-only machines, Windows 10 accounted for 72.2%, a record for the five-year-old OS. | | Best Practices For Software-As-A-Service Operations, a Report by Forrester Research | | BetterCloud Monitor | It is a remarkably good time to invest in SaaS. But as SaaS adoption accelerates, there’s an urgent need for a consistent set of operational practices to manage your best-of-breed SaaS environment. For IT teams looking to discover, manage, and secure their SaaS applications, this new study proves the value of the highly automated and iterative tooling that BetterCloud offers. | | Apple Announces ‘One More Thing’ Event for November 10th | | The Verge | Apple has announced a “One More Thing” event for November 10th, which will presumably see the company announce its first Arm-based Macs that run on Apple Silicon chips instead of the Intel processors the company has used since 2005. The language here is particularly notable: the “One More Thing” phrase has long been used by Apple — particularly by former CEO Steve Jobs — in keynotes for significant product announcements. | | Google Fixes Two More Chrome Zero-Days That Were Under Active Exploit | | Ars Technica | According to a Monday tweet from Ben Hawkes, the head of Google’s Project Zero vulnerability and exploit research arm, CVE-2020-16009, as the first vulnerability is tracked, is a remote code-execution bug in V8, Chrome’s open source JavaScript engine. A second security flaw, CVE-2020-16010, is a heap-based buffer overflow in Chrome for Android. |
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| | | 6 Energy-Boosting Tips to Combat Pandemic Fatigue | | Fast Company | Since the pandemic swooped in, life got a whole lot more exhausting, but it doesn’t have to stay that way. Try out these supercharged strategies I use with my business coaching clients to get them more energy, optimize their performance, and increase productivity—no coffee required. | | How to Build a Daily Writing Habit | | The Sweet Setup | Writing helps with your overall creativity. Writing brings clarity to your ideas, your thoughts, even the decisions you need to make. If you are wanting to build an audience. If you simply want to write and share something regularly for your newsletter or on your blog. Or if you want to write in order to get stuff out of your head so you can see it more clearly, then build a writing habit. |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: November 2 - 6 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Last week, Google announced that you can now accept multiple knocks in Meet. Rejoice! Additionally, it said that rooms in Google Chat will be unthreaded by default starting on November 16th. Plus, a new partnership to improve context-aware access. Read more about these updates and more in the links. |
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