Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop; Dell's sporty $419 laptop

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Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year. Read more Resource of the day Live Webcast - Spotlight On: Private Cloud Endpoint Backup Join us for this LIVE webinar on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 where we'll dive deep into ideal scenarios for and benefits from a private cloud endpoint backup strategy. More from TechRepublic   See what's new with Google Voice How to preview Ubuntu Unity Smart Scopes News from ZDNet   Dell introduces Latitude 3330 laptop for students and small businesses 10 things about Google Glass: Could this be Google's iPad? Asus launches dual-screen Taichi 31 Ultrabook with tablet capabilities Microsoft brings fight to AWS with first full IaaS offering Microsoft goes head-to-head with Amazon Web Services on price, cloud VMs VMware, Canonical team up on OpenStack Real-time Hadoop analytics: ScaleOut turns on in-memory tech Dell, Carl Icahn agree to ownership cap Chinese tourists will need NBN: Rudd Vodafone Germany cuts 500 jobs, outsources to India, Romania A quick and simple way to add up to 128GB of storage to a MacBook Google's Eric Schmidt on Facebook Home: 'It took some guts to do it, on our part' Today's recommended downloads 451: Silver Peak Claims Proof-Positive of Network Virtualization's Agility (Silver Peak Systems, Inc.) Building a Cisco Certification Lab (Global Knowledge) ZLTO Meets 5 Minute RPO with Silver Peak and Dell EqualLogic (Silver Peak Systems, Inc.) ZDNet Asia IT Priorities 2013 Report (ZDNet) Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud (Oracle)   About this newsletter The Editor's Daily Picks newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the products, people, and ideas that are revolutionizing the planet. Jason Hiner Editor in Chief For real-time updates on the latest tech stories, follow my Twitter feed (@jasonhiner) or my Google+ feed (+Jason Hiner). Connect with TechRepublic The 21st Century Data Center Special Feature More than ever, data centers run the world, but many of them need a 21st century reboot. Today's data centers have to be more efficient, redundant, and flexible than ever. TechRepublic and ZDNet examine when and how to best run your own data center versus when to outsource to the cloud or a service provider, and when to take a hybrid approach. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Week in Review Big Data Analytics Tablets in the Enterprise Five Apps Software Engineer Smartphones

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