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Windows Vista: Cancel or allow?
How often do you use iTunes? What about CCI Printing? Your H: drive? Securexam? Gaming software?
If you choose to install Windows Vista today, you’re choosing to give up these and other applications that aren’t compatible with Vista yet.
ERP streamlines campus systems
Do you ever wonder why it seems like you have to visit multiple campus entities just to accomplish seemingly easy tasks like paying your tuition or enrolling for a class? We do too – and we’re working on a way to make the University’s administrative processes more streamlined for students, faculty and staff with an initiative known as ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning.
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Back that data up
Think about how much time went into that 20-page research paper. With a few clicks of your mouse, you could lose it all in a hard drive crash – or protect it by ordering a data backup service. ITS’ automatic data backup solution, Iron Mountain, is now available for purchase online at http://software.unc.edu/IM.
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Browser wars: What’s the best tool for searching the Internet?
More than half of Internet users browse with Internet Explorer (IE). But a growing number of people use Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and other browsers. Last month, about 60 percent of people accessing the UNC-Chapel Hill Web site used a version of Internet Explorer, about 20 percent used Mozilla Firefox and about 15 percent used another open-source browser (including other versions of Mozilla). At a time when Microsoft and Mozilla are both working to update their browsers and offer new features, you may want to take a second look at what you use to surf the Internet.
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