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Holiday ‘Bliss’: Microsoft’s latest ugly sweater features iconic Windows XP desktop image

GeekWire

The story of the Bliss hillside location in wine country north of San Francisco has been told previously in the years since XP was released in October 2001 and retired in 2014. The event — complete with Bliss backdrop — will feature Windows-specific trivia, among other entertainment.

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Shuffl helps create new social interactions on Slack to spark joy between coworkers

GeekWire

The two had first met in 2001 when Lee immigrated to Seattle in seventh grade, and stayed on touch over the years. Our focus on operating in a lean fashion on leading platforms in combination with the organic demand for our product created a perfect storm that has allowed us to grow solely through our revenue.

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Windows turns 35: a visual history

The Verge

In 2055, it’s unlikely that we’ll be celebrating another 35 years of Windows in quite the same fashion, so let’s look back at how Microsoft’s operating system has changed since its humble beginnings. Windows XP (2001). Microsoft may yet weather its mobile storm, but it will only do so by rekindling its roots as a true software company.

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Qubit by qubit, the quantum computers of tomorrow are coming into being

Vox

The Quantum System Two looks forbidding, like some offspring of the supercomputer from 2001: A Space Odyssey , minus HAL’s eerie red eye. Up close, it emits a quiet electronic hum.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: The Human Capital Formation

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Tom Stewart in his book “ The Wealth of Knowledge ” (2001) demonstrates how the building and leveraging of organizational knowledge assets can be at the heart of value generation. Currently interim IT Director for Matches Fashion. THE VIRTUOUS PROCESS OF HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Henderson, The Knowledge Engine , Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001, first edition page 14). Currently interim IT Director for Matches Fashion. Baird and J. Business Intelligence (BI) needs to provide the right Knowledge to drive the strategy and use the strategy to direct Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives : The Focus stage above.

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Top 10 Most-Destructive Computer Viruses

Galido

Code Red (2001) Compared to modern malware, Code Red seems like an almost kinder, gentler version of a threat. But when it swept across computers worldwide in 2001, it caught security experts off guard by exploiting a flaw in Microsoft Internet Information Server.

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