[TechRepublic] Keep tabs on performance

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Keep tabs on performance in Windows 8 with Action Center Windows 8's Action Center has been streamlined to further centralize and simplify standard maintenance operations. Read more Microsoft hits RTM milestone with Windows 8 Windows 8 development is done. Some users will be able to get the final bits within days. Read more Resource of the day Live webcast: Steps to Move into a Virtualized Environment Learn about the many aspects of your IT operation that can benefit from virtualization; Discover virtualization technologies and how to decide what's best for each situation; Explore a plan for implementation to get you started fast! Posts from TechRepublic   Dump Gmail for Outlook.com? Four reasons you might Microsoft's Gmail competitor has finally arrived. You might be surprised to learn that it brings some useful innovations to webmail. Here are the big four. Read more Scariest stuff from BlackHat 2012 NFC hacking, ultra-stealthy malware, and hotel room lock and keycard weaknesses made this list of some of the scariest demonstrated exploits at BlackHat 2012. Read more Ruby development on Windows via RubyInstaller With RubyInstaller, Windows developers no longer need to jump into a Linux environment to work with Ruby projects. Read more Computers are no Dickens but the writing's on the wall for human authors We used to assess a piece of writing by the standing of its author and its source. But that will no longer be the case when a machine has done the wordsmithing. Read more Posts from ZDNet   Dropbox gets hacked ... again After last year's embarrassing data breaches, Dropbox promised to implement additional safeguards "to prevent this from happening again." Whoops, it just happened again. Read more A guided tour of the new Outlook.com Eventually, Outlook.com will replace Hotmail. For now, though, Microsoft is releasing its new email service (previously code-named NewMail) as a preview that's open to the public. Here's what's inside. Read more Featured multimedia   Cracking Open the Google Nexus 7 Bill Detwiler cracks open the Asus-built Google Nexus 7, examines the internal hardware, and explains why it has an edge on Amazon's Kindle Fire. View on site Five Internet Explorer add-ons for better browsing From spell checkers to macro tools to security plugins, add-ons can improve your IE experience. Here are five good ones to try. View on site Today's recommended downloads Live Webcast: Comprehensive and Effective Payment Security Strategies (Chase Paymentech Solutions) Charting the Course to a Customer-Centric Business (IBM) Alan Turing: A modern computing legacy (ZDNet) LIVE WEBCAST: The IT Factor: Dashboards 101: Putting Your Data to Work (TechRepublic) Social Meets IT - Using Online Communities to Reduce Help Desk Costs (Citrix Online) Favorite Windows Photo Galleries   Add image thumbnails to Microsoft Windows Explorer? Add Macs to a Windows Vista workgroup Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Easter Eggs Looking back at Microsoft Windows 98 Easter Eggs   Connect with TechRepublic London Olympics 2012: Special Report From London, TechRepublic UK editor Steve Ranger and chief reporter Nick Health lead our coverage of the technology that is powering the 2012 Olympics. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Tech Sanity Check Google in the Enterprise Cracking Open 10 Things

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