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Microsoft is sugar-coating the news, but in the next upgrade to Windows, due this spring, Cortana as we know it will all but cease to exist. The digital assistant will no longer be easily accessible in Windows 10, and it will lose the ability to do many of the things it was designed to do, such as control smart devices in your home or play music. It won&t compete with AmazonAlexa, AppleSiri or Google Assistant — not that it ever really did. It won&t be built into smart speakers — not that it ever got incorporated into many.

Cortana isn&t being killed off outright. Not yet anyway. But it may be at the beginning of one of those long deathbed watches that Microsoft is prone to make failed products endure. Cortana will live on for now, in a much more limited way. I&ll explain it all, but first lettake a look at Cortanacheckered history and why Microsoft has decided ittime to drastically curtail what it can do.

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Athens is a center of Greek economy, finance, industry, politics, and culture. One of its landmarks is Piraeus Bank, which was founded in 1916 and the largest bank in Greece. It leads in share of customer loans and deposits at 29%, and provides comprehensive financial products and services for more than 5.4 million customers through its network of approximately 540 branches in Greece.

On August 21, 2018, Greece concluded the 3rd Economic Adjustment Programme, and for the first time since 2010, the country will not rely on official sector loans. Greek banks have been continuing to cooperate with the European Authorities to ensure that Greece remains well on the way towards becoming a sustainable and competitive economy.

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Italways a good idea to pause Windows updates just before they hit the rollout chute. This month, we&re facing two extraordinary issues that you need to take into account. Wouldn&t hurt if you told your friends and family, too.

Take last monthWindows patches. Please. We had one patch, KB 4524244, that slid out on Patch Tuesday, clobbered an unknown number of machines (HP PCs with Ryzen processors got hit hard), then remained in &automatic download& status until it was finally pulled on Friday. We had another patch, KB 4532693, that gobbled desktop icons and moved files while performing a nifty trick with temporary user profiles. Microsoft never did fix that one.

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I&ve been working remotely for more than 15 years. I thought that with so many people working remotely in response to the novel coronavirus it may be useful to share some of the things I&ve learned that help me make remote working productive and useful.

First step: Define your time

It is way too easy to end up working too hard when you work from home. In part this is because it is also too easy to let your thoughts drift during the day, only to find you need to work all night to reach that morning deadline.

You need to be hard on yourself and make sure to define your time, creating clear and consistent boundaries between working and domestic time.

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This pilot fish works as a Linux sysadmin at a small software-as-a-service company. &I come in early in the mornings, while the tech that does most of our Windows and desktop work comes in later and stays later,& fish says.

&One night, she does a scheduled migration of one of our accounting personnel to a new desktop and sends the user an email that the switch was complete and everything looks good.&

But next morning itfish who gets a panicked call from the user, who tells fish that nothing is working and can he please come right over to take a look?

Fish knows henot up on the latest Windows issues, so he heads to the userdesk with a bit of trepidation.

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