Getting the Most Out of Your Windows 7 Internet Connection
Chances are, everyone on your intranet has Gigabit Ethernet, with its 1,000 Mbps (Megabit per second) speeds. Or perhaps your laptop users are moving up to 802.11n Wi-Fi with 100Mbps throughput. That’s all great — but once your users hit the router, they’re all back to fighting over your far-more limited Internet connection (say, a [...]

Five things Chrome OS isn’t
Some people still seem a little confused about what Chrome OS is, and isn’t, so here’s my quick guide on what’s really what with this forthcoming operating system. 1. Ready yet I’m already seeing people proclaiming that it’s awful. Uh, people, it’s not even beta yet. Yes, even now Google Chrome OS works pretty darn well, but [...]

Five reasons Google Chrome OS Security Wins
Google’s Chrome OS has many virtues. Based on a solid foundation of Ubuntu Linux, it uses the Chrome Web browser as its interface to any and all applications. Chrome OS is also not so much a Windows replacement, as it’s an attempt to get rid of the entire traditional idea of a PC desktop. If [...]

Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
A lot of people, including me, are excited about Chrome OS, Google’s forthcoming desktop operating system. One of the things that has people worked up is Chrome OS’ improved security over Windows. That’s true. It should be better, and I’ll talk more about that tomorrow, but before you get too excited about that you should [...]

Chrome’s mission: Making Windows obsolete
Some people are already convinced that Google will fail with its Chrome operating system. Others think that Chrome can’t possibly be a threat to Windows. Both groups are so, so wrong. First, for those who think that Chrome is simply a failure from the word go, their reasoning is pathetically flawed. Chrome will fail because it’s [...]