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Although businesses have been getting rid of Windows XP over the last several years, the fact remains that as of last December, around 500 million users were still running Windows XP. Here are 7 of the top reasons it’s time to finally give up Windows XP now.

You can line up DOMINOS in a beautiful pattern and spend hours doing it … but all you have to do to knock them all down is PUSH over the first one (the lead domino) and the rest will follow. The same is true about a business. You can spend years and years building up a great business with a super reputation and one employee can cause a customer to never do business with you again.

A recent AOL online article titled “The Scary Truth Of How Terrorists Could Crash Your Car” freaked a lot of people out by implying that terrorists could easily hack into your car’s computer systems and wreck your car (or hundreds of cars at a time) at speeds exceeding 100 mph.

Most likely you’ve heard all of the commotion around cloud computing and know that it’s the “Next Big Thing” in business technology. Yet, despite all of the hype, most businesses really don’t understand exactly what cloud computing is and what it could do to help their business.

A can of diet coke will float to the top of water, but a regular coke will sink to the bottom. (Try it.)

The fourth richest man in the world (Warren Buffett) still lives in the house he bought for $31,500 in 1958.

The Munich Technical University has a 3-story slide used for students to get to class faster.

While it’s rare to find a marketing plan for most businesses, it’s even MORE rare to find a customer nurturing schedule. And given that most people walk around grossly underappreciated, developing a plan to thank and show appreciations for your customers is actually an easy way to stand out.

Do what you need to do now so you will eventually get to do what you want to do later.

Discipline is the ability to get things done regardless of how you feel about doing them.

Passion only pays off when channeled into productive effort.

Others may believe in you, help you and support you, but ultimately nobody will do it for you.

Do you have Java turned on in your web browser? If your answer is “Yes” or “I’m not sure” then it’s time to take action to find out. Why? The biggest threat to your computer systems in 2013 (and beyond) is no longer Microsoft Windows - it is Oracle Java.

If you dread writing checks for a network upgrade because it hits your cash flow in a big way, then you’ll want to look into HaaS or “hardware as a service.”

HaaS is becoming a more common option for businesses because it allows you to pay for ALL your IT services – hardware, installation, security, backups, applications, Internet, etc.

Hong Kong is one of the busiest and freest cities on Earth. It also recently played host to one of the biggest whistleblowers in history - Edward Snowden. In early June, Snowden, an ex NSA (National Security Agency) consultant, exposed their data collection program, causing unparalleled uproar and controversy.