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Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...

Comment Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008… ¦ Video: CIO Agenda 2008 ¦ Naked CIO: The true cost of IT ¦ Why IT must escape the belt-tightening ¦ Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities ¦ Recession fears hit IT...

Tags: storage, innovation, technology costs

[14 May 2008]

Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008   Naked CIO: The true cost of IT   Why IT must escape the belt-tightening   Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities diams...

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Athens and roam ¦ Video: CIO Agenda 2008 ¦ ZX...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays

Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty The Naked CIO: Cut the bull It looks to me like bloatware has now spilled out of the PC domain and...

Tags: operating systems, software, design

[16 Apr 2008]

Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?

Comment The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty The Naked CIO: Cut the bull Exclusive column: The Naked CIO The Naked CIO: Animal farm

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe The Naked CIO: Boadroom stereotypes The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty The Naked CIO: Cut the bull The Naked CIO: Animal farm The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley?

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam

Comment The Naked CIO When IT applications decentralised onto the PC, there was a time when the office desktop was mostly autonomous and operated independently from the network. Addicts may take their CrackBerrys on holiday and even up to bed.

Tags: blackberry, pdas, email, mobile

[21 Feb 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?

Comment The Naked CIO Microsoft played a significant role in the spread of the PC to the point of near ubiquity. Despite the rhetoric, most large firms are simply poor at innovating. Microsoft is no exception and its bid for Yahoo!

Tags: innovation, yahoo!, mergers, microsoft

[20 Feb 2008]

How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day

Comment The Naked CIO But this tends to affect those on more formal licence agreements or in more affluent areas, whereas for qualifying governments purchasing Windows-based PCs, Partners in Learning provides a full stack of Windows XP Starter Edition...

Tags: education, skills, microsoft, third world

[07 Feb 2008]

The Naked CIO: Time to wage war on home users

Comment A purchase order for a PC lands on my desk. But presently I feel like PC World and that is not the function of IT. On top of that, once a company PC is in the home we in IT then have to support it, which often means going to a manager's home when a...

Tags: home working, games, management, support

[04 Feb 2008]

Stories of the year

News Naked PCs: The naked truth Unsurprisingly, the 'chip and bin' story generated a lot of reader comments.silicon.com readers also had their say this year on PCs sold without an operating system - or 'naked PCs' - but the idea doesn't appear to be...

Tags: christmas, google, apple, revealed

[14 Dec 2007]

Top 10 software stories of the year

News Following a European think tank's recommendation that PCs should be sold without a pre-installed OS, silicon.com readers made their point on so-called 'naked PCs'. Naked PCs: The naked truth And, ironically, with several big OS launches in 2007...

Tags: oracle, leopard, microsoft, vista

[14 Dec 2007]

Naked PCs: The naked truth

News By starting from a naked PC, businesses would at least save time (due to not having to delete the existing installation), if not cash too, they said. A European think tank's recent recommendation that computers should be sold without an OS - so...

Tags: microsoft, linux, naked pcs

[02 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.09.07

Round-Up This is really all very salutary but who actually wants a naked PC? A naked PC policy would open the door to Linux distributions but most likely only in the enterprise space or among power users. Not content with shafting Microsoft in a landmark...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[28 Sep 2007]

Are '<strong>naked</strong> PCs' cheaper for businesses?

Are 'naked PCs' cheaper for businesses?

News UK businesses have backed calls for computers to be sold 'naked' - without a bundled Microsoft Windows operating system. Other IT chiefs also backed the argument for optional, not compulsory, naked PCs.

Tags: windows, pcs, cio jury

[27 Sep 2007]

Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...

Comment Bring on the naked PCs, says think tank This would obviate the need to have a cashback option for those who didn't want Windows, or to sell separate naked PCs. If the user cannot contact the pc manufacturer and recieve useful support for their OS...

Tags: nuclear, naked pc, geek, vista

[27 Sep 2007]

Bring on the naked PCs, says think tank

News The institute examined several options for breaking Microsoft's monopoly but settled on the so-called "naked PC" option because offering customers a choice of bundled operating systems would be logistically impossible on the high street, and...

Tags: naked pc, microsoft, os

[24 Sep 2007]

Want Dell's Ubuntu PC? Be prepared to wait...

News It already offers so-called "naked PCs" - computers without operating systems - to customers with a US address. The PC supplier has said it will sell machines with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed later this month.

Tags: ubuntu, linux, dell

[04 May 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 27.04.07

Round-Up Linux pre-installed, naked PCs and Firefox as the default browser - it's all enough to make Dell's top software partner run screaming for the trees. Dell said on its website: "We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[27 Apr 2007]

Q&A: Microsoft UK head of anti-piracy Michala Alexander

Comment It is certainly something that is discussed.silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK recently highlighted the issue of how difficult it is to buy a naked PC - a machine without an OS installed - and how Microsoft, and you in particular, were trying to...

Tags: michala alexander, anti-piracy, piracy, microsoft

[22 May 2006]

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