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Amazon starts selling desktop software… in the cloud

April 10, 2015/in Internet Security

Amazon today announced the launch of a new Marketplace for desktop apps as a service. Amazon is selling subscriptions to software including Visual Studio and Office, paid on a monthly basis.

The software is run on the virtual desktop infrastructure service that Amazon launched last year, AWS WorkSpaces. These start at $ 25/month for a virtual Windows 7 desktop (provided by Windows Server 2008 R2). Adding, for example, Office 2013 Professional Plus from the AWS Marketplace is another $ 15/month.

To go with the Marketplace, Amazon has released a new tool called WorkSpaces Application Manager (WAM). With WAM, administrators can subscribe to apps for their users, mark certain apps as “required” so they’ll be deployed automatically, make other optional apps available for users to provision themselves, and manage updating and auditing. WAM can be used with both applications from the Marketplace and in-house apps.

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Ultimate guide to Linux desktop environments

March 3, 2015/in Computer Security

Last year, Network World’s resident Linux enthusiast Bryan Lunduke set out on a mission to immerse himself into a variety of Linux desktops, using each exclusively for both work and personal computing for at least one week and documenting his experiences on his Linux Tycoon blog.

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Box fixes flaw in Mac desktop Sync app

February 9, 2015/in Computer Security

Online file storage and sharing service Box has patched the Mac version of its desktop app after a developer found it exposed potentially sensitive bits of data, including API keys, internal user IDs, URLs and passwords.

Mac users should ensure they’re on the updated 4.0.6035 version, wrote Pepijn Bruienne, a Mac development and operation specialist senior at the University of Michigan, who found the problem.

The error was probably an unintentional one by Box, Bruienne wrote in a blog post. He reported the issue to the company in early January. Box told him on Friday that it had released an updated version.

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