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(Disclaimer: Microsoft is a client of the author and says Bill Gates saved his job as a first-year analyst. But he also says Gates never gave him a promised tour of his house.)

Bill Gates resigned from Microsoftboard of directors last week, pretty much ending his official ties to the company he co-founded. He says hestill available as a technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft leaders, but otherwise hedevoting himself completely to his other pursuits, like philanthropy.

Gates and the company he started very nearly 45 years ago with Paul Allen transformed the computing landscape. Throughout the period of Microsoftearly growth and maturation, Gates was at the helm as CEO, demonstrating business leadership and competitiveness that, even more than technology, were keys to the companysuccess.

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I think some enterprise professionals who have never worked remotely will find doing so stressful. I hope this short collection of apps will help you through the experience.

It's important to note that remote working is improved when the people doing the work feel as good as they can in the circumstances they are in.

Try to relax: Buddhify

Given his ascetic lifestyle and deep veneration for the work of Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda, I&m willing to bet that AppleSteve Jobs practiced meditation. At times of stress, meditation can help you tune your mind, body and spirit into one frequency.

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Apple late last week joined its operating system rivals when it announced that its annual developers conference would not take place in a physical you-are-there format.

The Cupertino, Calif. company said that the "current health situation" — it did not use "COVID-19" or "coronavirus" in its statement — "required that we create" a venue-less get-together.

"We [will] create a new WWDC 2020 format that delivers a full program with an online keynote and sessions, offering a great learning experience for our entire developer community," wrote Phil Schiller, Apple's senior marketing executive, in the statement.

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Windows 10 is the best operating system that's come along from Microsoft in a long time. It's a shape-shifter that changes its interface depending upon whether you're using a traditional computer or a touch-based one. It undoes the damage wrought by Windows 8, including eliminating the awkward Charms bar and bringing back the long-mourned Start menu.

Handling Windows updates

OneDrive in Windows 10

The powered-up Windows Clipboard

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I&m one of the roughly 5% of Americans who work full time from home. I&ve been doing it for 30 years now. If I could manage it with a 28.8K modem internet connection back in the day, you can do it today in the age of broadband.

Herehow.

Broadband: You need the internet to work successfully from home. The faster your connection, the better. If you live alone — or at least if you&re home alone during your normal working hours — and if your work is mostly text-based, a connection of just 5Mbps should be enough. But if itthe coronavirus thatkeeping you at home and you have a partner whoalso working online and kids with little else to do than stream Netflix or Disney+, you&ll need more, at least a 25Mbps connection.

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Itthe 1980s, and legacy systems are already a problem. IBM is still shipping source code for big-iron internals, says this mainframe pilot fish.

&IBM discontinued supporting BTAM under CICS, but we had a major customer who communicated via CICS BTAM,& fish says.

Translation: The big customer uses the CICS transaction-processing system, and connects to it over telecommunication lines using the very old BTAM protocol — and IBM has just stopped supporting that approach.

Boss instructs fish to put BTAM support back in — after all, she does have access to the source code. Fish thinks thata bad plan, since changing internal mainframe system code is never a good idea.

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