Новости за 02.11.2017

Blockchain developers now rank second among the top 20 fastest-growing job skills, and job postings for workers with those skills have more than doubled this year.

Windows 7 surrendered a few more users last month as its share of the overall Windows universe slipped a bit closer to 50%.

These days, Microsoft is supposedly all about services — about getting you to use and subscribe to its software, regardless of what platform you prefer.

If you are one of the lucky 9-12 million people who expect to receive an iPhone X this week, or someone already queueing outside an Apple Store somewhere, then you’ll want to explore these eight features first.

Microsoft’s ongoing record of shoddy response to Surface Pro problems continues unabated. This time, the Surface Pro 4 (born October 2015, superseded June 2017) takes the limelight: Complaints about shaky screens and dead Type Covers abound.

Managing projects across teams both large and small isn’t easy. It can sometimes get complex and is often inefficient. That’s where collaborative task management firm Asana hopes to help out. It aims to make tracking work activities simpler, reducing the need for email and unnecessary meetings, or – as Asana calls it – all that “work about work.”

I’m a firm believer that PowerShell knowledge is required if you work in Windows administration. That’s become especially true over the last three to four years as Microsoft has invested a good deal of time and energy into expanding the universe of things that PowerShell commands can accomplish. I’ve been on the PowerShell train for years now — so much so that I wrote a book to help beginners learn it.

This pilot fish works at a bank, and he's not surprised to see his boss, the IT manager, show up one day for the monthly management meeting. But as soon as the meeting is over, the chief lending officer asks fish's boss for help because his laptop won't power up.