The days of Microsoft Windows 7 are numbered. Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 7 in January of 2015, putting the very popular operating system into what’s known as the “extended support” phase. During the extended support phase, Microsoft releases security patches and bug fixes but doesn’t add any new features or functionality to the Windows 7 operating system. Once this extended support phase ends on January 14th, 2020, Windows 7 will officially be unsupported by Microsoft.
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We recently ran across an issue in which a user was continuously being prompted to activate Microsoft Office 2016. We determined the issue to be related to the presence of multiple keys. Since Office 2013, Microsoft has included a helpful VBscript called Office Software Protection Platform (ospp.vbs). You can lean more about the tool and all of it’s options here. Below are the steps we took to resolve this user’s issue.
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Financial services firms have always been a top target of cybercrime, but today the threat is greater than ever. According to a report released by IBM X-Force, firms in the financial services industry are attacked at nearly twice the rate of companies in other industries. Why? Hackers are simply following the money.
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The trend toward greater use of artificial intelligence (AI) helpers in customer-facing roles is no small fad. AI technology is poised to make sweeping changes in how both large organizations and SMBs run their operations.
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Today, commercial real estate and property management firms are dealing with unprecedented complexity, playing a more active role in the creation and collection of renovation bids, the hiring and managing of various staff, the coordination of maintenance services, the overseeing of property security, in addition to a wide variety of other tasks. New computer and network technologies are key to helping companies manage this intimidating list of responsibilities.
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