7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac

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	7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac Here are 7 tools that provide important details on known and unknown aspects of your WiFi network. Each of these tools gives you the basic wireless details: SSIDs, signal strength, channels, MAC addresses, and security status. Some can even reveal hidden or non-broadcast SSIDs, display the noise levels, or display statistics on successful and failed packets of your wireless connection. Read More WHITE PAPER: Unitrends Six Fairy Tales of VMware and Hyper-V Backup Cinderella. Snow White. Hansel and Gretal. These famous fairy tales have one thing in common - they are fiction. In this paper we explore six fairy tales of VMware and Hyper-V backup. View Now. In this Issue Richard Stallman: Windows OS is malware Review: Windows 10 Insider Preview -- a nearly finished OS INSIDER First look: Windows Server 2016 goes on a cloud diet Windows 10: Which classic Microsoft default apps should be killed? Microsoft offers Windows 10 carrot, threatens with stick Malware tricks users to elevate privileges, pwnage via Windows User Access Control Weighing your options with Microsoft's Windows servers Leaked memo suggests Microsoft is prepping an instant messenger-style email client Gartner: Amazon's cloud is 10x bigger than its next 14 competitors, combined WHITE PAPER: Okta Solving the O365 Mobility Puzzle If you're migrating from an existing on-premise Exchange environment -or setting up Office 365 for a new set of users- you'll need to address how to handle users accessing Office 365 from mobile devices. Read this eGuide now to discover how you can simplify the migration and deployment process around Office 365 to mobile devices. Learn more Richard Stallman: Windows OS is malware Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement, said Windows and OS X are malware, Amazon's Kindle has an Orwellian back door, and only an idiot would trust the Internet of Things. Read More Review: Windows 10 Insider Preview -- a nearly finished OS Microsoft has been racing to put the final touches on Windows 10 before its expected release date in late July. There have been three public updates in the last month: Builds 10061, 10074 and 10122. At this point, the interface and features for the new operating system are essentially set. Read More INSIDER First look: Windows Server 2016 goes on a cloud diet Windows Server 2016 is both an evolution of the current Windows Server 2012 R2 release and a revolution in the making. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. How Should Network Flow Inform VM Placement? This whitepaper examines the latency-inducing pitfalls of common VM placement tactics, as well as a network flow approach that minimizes network, compute, and storage latency all at once. Learn More Windows 10: Which classic Microsoft default apps should be killed? Based on what we've seen in Microsoft's Windows 10 preview editions, here's our take on which classic apps should be kept and which should be killed when the final version of Windows 10 ships. Read More Microsoft offers Windows 10 carrot, threatens with stick Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for the first year after its release. But once those 12 months are over, users will have to purchase a retail copy of the OS or license it through a volume deal, according to a briefly-available blog post by Microsoft's Australian arm. Read More Malware tricks users to elevate privileges, pwnage via Windows User Access Control Microsoft described the Windows User Account Control (UAC) security feature as helping "defend your PC against hackers and malicious software. Any time a program wants to make a major change to your computer, UAC lets you know and asks for permission." Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent The Three Industry Trends Changing Enterprise IT This webinar will look at how CIOs can leverage three intersecting trends – cloud, new technologies, and web-scale IT – to help their companies respond rapidly to new business opportunities. Learn More Weighing your options with Microsoft's Windows servers In the course of this year, almost 10 million antiquated Windows Server 2003 servers will have their applications and data removed and deployed on new servers, and the old servers will be shut down and disposed of. It is a natural assumption that the destination servers will be Server 2012, but that's not necessarily the case, nor should it be. Read More Leaked memo suggests Microsoft is prepping an instant messenger-style email client A document purported to be a Microsoft-confidential memo has popped up on Twitter that says the company is looking to revamp Outlook to make it almost like an instant messenger. Read More Gartner: Amazon's cloud is 10x bigger than its next 14 competitors, combined Amazon Web Service's IaaS cloud is big. Really big. Biggest in the market. In fact, it's bigger than all of its other competitors' clouds, by a lot. Read More
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