Neowin News Feed for: Alternatives

Facebook wants to eventually replace passwords, starting with Delegated Account Recovery

Florin Bodnarescu — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:20:01 +0000

At its F8 developer conference, Facebook unveiled a feature called Delegated Account Recovery, which would act as a method to securely log into third party sites using your Facebook account. Read more...

Microsoft continues to call out Chromebook shortcomings, offers alternatives

Brad Sams — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:10:18 +0000

Microsoft has recently put up a page on its website that calls out Chromebooks and where they come up short against Windows machines, offering up a few alternatives to consider instead. Read more...

Office Alternatives Explore Server-Based Apps

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:15:49 +0000

While Microsoft quietly pursues developing new servers for its Microsoft Office applications, Sun Microsystems' StarOffice and the open-source OpenOffice.org are taking another route with their applications. Citing security, portability and deployment benefits, both see offering... Read more...

Use of Napster Alternatives Rose in October - Webnoize

Mon, 05 Nov 2001 23:05:05 +0000

Users swapped 1.81 billion media files on Napster-alternative services like Kazaa, MusicCity and Grokster, which have seen usage rise since Napster shut down in July to legal pressures, a research firm said on Monday. ... Read more...