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Review: Updated: Windows 7

The latest updates on Microsoft’s most popular OS Since this review was originally published, Windows 7 has been superseded by Windows 8/8.1 and subsequently Windows 10, which was available as a free upgrade for a year – although that offer has now expired. The first Service Pack for Windows 7 was unveiled on 22 February,

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Regular password changes make things worse

Security experts have been saying for decades that human weakness can trump the best technology. Apparently, it can also trump conventional wisdom. Since passwords became the chief method of online authentication, conventional wisdom has been that changing them every month or so would improve a person’s, or an organization’s, security. [ Simplify your security with 8

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Hands-on review: Alienware 17

Since Nvidia’s latest generation of Pascal graphics came to laptops, we’ve been seeing a ton of upgraded gaming notebooks come out of the wood work. But while hardware refreshes are great, we still have yet to see something truly new. That is until now. The new Alienware 17 is the first portable rig designed specifically

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