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IT-chefens roll – a survival guide

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IT managers are living in a turbulent world, with trends like cloud, mobility, big data and social media. Here are the key tips from the American magazine CIO to master the fast-growing business jungle.

1. Acting, but do not panic

Tired boss

Change creates new business opportunities. Therefore, it is time to redefine the IT manager's role in your organization. Start with an overall evaluation of the IT department can do to strengthen and streamline business.

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Reset Windows Update

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Windows Update

Automatic updates is Microsoft's way of getting critical updates to users as quickly as possible and is built into all modern Windows versions. Usually, everything works as it should, but sometimes it hangs up or does not download updates correctly. There will also be updates are trying to install over and over again without success. In this guide Reset Windows Update, Get help with how to solve problems that have Automatic Updates to do.

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Uninstall programs in Windows Safe Mode 7

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Allow windows installer service to start in safe mode

msiexec.exe

Sometimes it may be necessary to uninstall an application, but for one reason or another, Windows will not allow this. One approach is to try to uninstall the program in safe mode. The default safe mode does not service ”Windows Installer” turned on, which is needed to uninstall. Here is a description how to set up the system to enable starting the Windows Installer in Safe Mode. The method involves editing the registry and is more for advanced users.

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It-history fameless

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The unknown heroes of IT history are women.

Francis E Allen

Francis E Allen – compiler expert.

Francis Allen joined IBM 1957. First she taught out the new programming language Fortran, but soon she began a successful career in the development of compilers. Compilers are programs that translate source code into machine code that can be run directly by the computer. She also worked on code optimization and parallelization. Many techniques she has developed are still used. Francis Allen was the first woman appointed to the IBM fellow and 2006 she became the first woman to receive IT:s answer to the Nobel Prize, A M Turing Award.

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IQ tests through the life

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Have done a couple of IQ tests through the life

The first time was at enlistment as it is called, when the military testing which ones fit for military service. It was a traditional test with graphic shapes lying in the given pattern and so, there is no figure to be filled in. The stupid thing with the test was that we got to know the results, but not the answers.  – How smart is it?

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Here is Microsoft's worst misses – TechWorld

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Dos 4.0 was just the beginning of a series of large holes, that Microsoft has done through the ages

Over the years, Microsoft has done a lot of successful features such as collecting Word and Excel in Office package, mixa ihop Windows 98 och Windows NT till Windows 2000 and buying Skype for huge amount of money. Of course, the company also Tabbath itself several times - this is the 13 worst misses of all time.

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