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MORE KEY POINTS on Windows 11 - Microsoft released its first test build of Windows 11 on Monday. - It’s missing big things that the company promised, including Android app support.... - But there are notable changes to the way Windows works. With Windows 11, Microsoft is introducing modern touches to the experience of using a PC. #RaptorITNetwork #Windows11 https://blog.raptoritnetwork.com/windows-11-will-look-dif/

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Citing sources close to Apple, a new report in Bloomberg outlines Apple's roadmap for moving the entire Mac lineup to the company's own custom-designed silicon, including both planned release windows for specific products and estimations as to how many performance CPU cores those products will have. The M1, which has four performance cores (alongside four efficiency cores), launched this fall in the company's lowest-end computersnamely, the MacBook Air and comparatively low-cost variants of the Mac mini and 13-inch MacBook Pro.... http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//new-report-reveals-a/

Optimizing your website for traffic, revenue, and conversion is one of the most essential parts of SEO. In 2021, success means going beyond having a neat and glossy design that sometimes can be a hindrance in terms of how search engines view and crawl your website. Conventional flat site structures are always popular. But last year Google’s John Muller, in a Webmaster Hangout, did hint a hierarchical site architecture could provide Google better indicators on:... http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//10-ways-website-stru/

AWS today opened its re:Invent conference with a surprise announcement: the company is bringing the Mac mini to its cloud. These new EC2 Mac instances, as AWS calls them, are now generally available. They won’t come cheap, though. The target audience here and the only one AWS is targeting for now is developers who want cloud-based build and testing environments for their Mac and iOS apps.... http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//aws-brings-the-mac-m/

What happened Shares of videoconferencing specialist Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ:ZM) are slumping today. The decline comes in the wake of news that a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech prevented over 90% of infections in human trials including tens of thousands of volunteers. Additionally, no serious safety concerns have been identified. Some investors are betting stocks that benefited from people sheltering at home could now cool off if lockdowns ease amid a successful deployment of vaccines. [ 280 more words ] http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//why-zoom-video-commu/

Apple has unveiled its first Macs with Apple silicon, and they’re powered by an all new Mac-specific chip: the M1. It’s based on the same fundamental design of the A14 (found in the iPhone 12), but scaled up to laptop-grade performance levels with more cores, more memory, and higher thermal limits. The result, Apple says, is a shocking increase in performance and power efficiency.... http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//apple-makes-bold-cla/

Google is starting to offer Google Guaranteed certification for a monthly fee, outside of Local Services Ads. It’s positioned as an upgraded profile that will include a badge appearing on the profile and which may also appear in the Local Pack. We’ve asked Google a number of questions about the new program and will update this post when the company responds (... http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//google-offering-upgr/

An organic presence is essential to any business that wants to succeed in the new age of search. Having this presence demonstrates a clear vision. This vision includes deeply understanding your target market and a clear definition of your target audience so you can effectively approach and appeal to them. Here we are going to explore the elements that make up an organic presence, how to grow and measure it, and the role that search engines play in your overall digital presence. [ 1,192 more word ] http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//what-it-means-to-own/

Apple's "One More Thing" event is all about Macs. Here's the scoop on Apple's latest chip, the M1, which is the first ARM-based computer chip the company is making in-house. The M1 is the first computer chip built on a 5nm process with 16 billion transistors. Optimized for Apple's lower-power systems with minimal size and maximum efficiency, there are four performance cores and four efficiency cores in the CPU.... http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//apple-dishes-details/

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When there's a contagious disease outbreak, a natural disaster or any other type of widespread emergency, IT team members may be required to work from home or at some other safe location until normal business operations can resume. Maintaining productivity and ensuring that essential IT services continue functioning uninterrupted throughout the emergency period can be challenging for both IT leaders and staff. [ 1,506 more word ] http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//7-secrets-of-success/

Microsoft is urging users to abandon telephone-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions like one-time codes sent via SMS and voice calls and instead replace them with newer MFA technologies, like app-based authenticators and security keys. The warning comes from Alex Weinert, Director of Identity Security at Microsoft. For the past year, Weinert has been advocating on Microsoft's behalf, urging users to embrace and enable MFA for their online accounts.... http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//microsoft-urges-user/

WordPress site owners currently using the Ultimate Member plugin are being urged to update to the latest version in order to patch three serious security flaws that could be exploited to launch site takeover attacks. Ultimate Member is a popular WordPress plugin designed to help simplify the task of creating and managing user profiles which is currently installed on over 100,000 websites.... http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//these-wordpress-plug/

In the past, a wide range of black hat SEO techniques proved to be successful in the short-term. However, they simply weren’t sustainable. Many websites implementing such tactics experienced severe penalties that were impossible to recover from. The bottom line is that Google has become much smarter and continues to advance its algorithm every day. For this reason, SEO is constantly evolving and our strategies for... http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//8-on-page-optimizati/

Zoom has gone from startup to verb in record time, by now the de facto video call service for work-from-home meetings and cross-country happy hours alike. But while there was already plenty you could do to keep your Zoom sessions private and secure, the startup has until now lacked the most important ingredient in a truly safe online interaction: end-to-end encryption. [ 918 more words ] http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//zoom-finally-has-end/

Google disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 last month, and it's currently being used in the wild. The security flaw, filed as CVE-2020-17087, puts both Windows 10 and Windows 7 at risk. Google gave Microsoft the standard 7-day notice to patch the issue, but a week has come and gone with no solution. As a result, Google's Project Zero security team published its findings publicly. [ 351 more words ] http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//windows-10-security-/

Microsoft Teams users need to be aware that time is running out to use the popular communication tool on one major browser. Earlier this year the Redmond-based tech giant announced plans to phase out a number of services on the veteran Internet Explorer 11 software as more and more people get pushed on Microsoft's current leading web surfer Edge. And the first big change to Internet Explorer 11 kicks into effect this month with Microsoft Teams first in line. [ 618 more words ] http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//microsoft-teams-will/

In 10 years, cybersecurity as we know it will no longer exist, according to Cloudflare cofounder and COO Michelle Zatlyn, who spoke at Business Insider's inaugural roundtable conversation featuring five Enterprise Tech Transformers. "I have a point of view that cybersecurity is going to be a thing of the past the next decade because I think technology is going to solve those problems," [ 487 more words ] http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//cybersecurity-as-we-/

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) can dovetail effectively with most marketing channels. However, it is rarely systematically included within search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns, and that is often a mistake. While SEO and CRO have clearly defined roles to play (which we will explore next), they can also provide substantial cumulative gains, outweighing the value of each when used in isolation. [ 1,094 more word ] http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//3-reasons-why-you-ne/

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Over the past few weeks, I have been seeing some reports that Microsoft Bing is having their own indexing issues. Meaning, Bing is not indexing pages like it use to for its search engine. In fact, I am told Microsoft has confirmed the issue with CloudFlare engineers and it is on Microsoft's side to fix. Some thought it had to do with CloudFlare being blocked, but it might be more widespread than just that based on the reports I am receiving both publicly and privately via email. [ 479 more words ] http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//microsoft-bing-may-b/

On October 14, Microsoft announced that Project Moca, a new productivity module, is available as a public preview for Office 365 commercial tenants. The feature had previously been made available to Education tenants in August and to premium Outlook.com accounts in June. Moca is the Outlook spaces project, the first sights of which leaked in February. If you want to enable Moca for users, you’ll need to run the Set-OWAMailboxPolicy cmdlet to update OWA mailbox policies and update the [ 1,449 more word ] http://blog.raptoritconsultants.com//project-moca-in-prev/