Windows XP users will start receiving warning messages about the April 8 end of support date March 8, and Microsoft Corp. is offering a new migration tool to help them upgrade to a
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP has had a storied and lengthy run - for the better part of a decade, it was the de facto standard for home and business computing. Microsoft released versions
Published on: November 22nd, 2013
Charles Henderson
@itbusinessca
If you look at news on the web, it can seem like a dreary time. But there’s a lot going on that’s inspiring. Especially today as Incubes, a local incubator, as it launches
Published on: September 10th, 2013
Ashley Huffman
@chicktech
An official of a local government in Canada with thousands of desktop PCs recently got a shock, according to an industry analyst: Those end-of-support-for-Windows-XP stories should be taken seriously. Wes Miller, a research
Published on: September 4th, 2013
Howard Solomon
@howarditwc
The countdown for Microsoft Corp.'s support for Windows XP will reach zero on April 8, 2014. After that, there won't be any more patches or updates released for the operating system. That could
More than one third of Canadian businesses with bring your own device (BYOD) policies adopted them as a result of specific security breaches or red flags, a new study shows. The finding is
Published on: September 25th, 2012
Christine Wong
@thatchriswong
The Regional Municipality of York got to experience its own eagerly anticipated Startup Canada town hall event today in Markham, at the Markham Convergence Centre (MCC). “We are very pleased to be hosting
Published on: May 28th, 2012
Jonathon Shore
@ventureLAB_
A bug report response from Apple suggests that the company is working on multi-user support for iPad.In the bug report submitted to Apple, a developer suggested that the company should add support for
Published on: May 9th, 2012
Ashley Allsopp
@itbusinessca
Startup organizations from seven nations will be meeting in Ottawa this October to kickstart a global movement to support entrepreneurship, Startup Canada announced today.But so far, it doesn't seem likely that Prime Minister
Published on: March 12th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
A week after returning to profitability, Acer is making Canada a big part of its new focus on the SMB market, including hiring in that unit here and the relocation of an overseas
Published on: February 22nd, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
More and more companies have turned to the Web to transact business. And, of course, if you are going to sell on the Web, the right shopping cart can mean the difference between
Published on: January 23rd, 2012
Vangie Beal
@itbusinessca
Online shoe and apparel shop Zappos.com is advising over 24 million customers to change their passwords following a data breach, but its website is currently inaccessible to people outside the U.S.Zappos employees received
Published on: January 16th, 2012
Lucian Constantin
@itbusinessca
Microsoft's Windows XP shed a large amount of usage share again last month as users continued to desert the decade-old operating system for Windows 7. Windows XP lost 2.4 percentage points of share
Published on: January 3rd, 2012
Gregg Keizer
@itbusinessca
Microsoft on Monday made its most aggressive move yet to convince customers to drop Windows XP and adopt Windows 7, telling them that there were only 1,000 days of support life left in
Published on: July 12th, 2011
Gregg Keizer
@itbusinessca