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Work management vendor Asana has introduced new automation capabilities for its software, including a rules builder that lets users automate repeatable steps.

Asana, founded by Facebook co-creator Dustin Moskovitz and software engineer Justin Rosenstein, is a collaborative work management app that lets users track and manage tasks on an individual, team or organization-wide basis. It has around 70,000 paying customers.

The company has been building out a range of features in recent months, including the addition of AsanaWorkload tool this past summer and Proofing in April. The latter lets users give feedback on images.

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Sharp-eyed AskWoody reader @Zathras sounded the alarm last night: The Win7 Pro "support notification" urging you to upgrade to Win10 has arrived.

It's KB 4524752 and the Knowledge Base article says:

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[Disclosure: Many of the firms mentioned are clients of the author.]

Iteasy to forget that Windows was initially a shell for DOS before it went through a massive change in 1995 (after Apple made GUIs the next big thing). Microsoft dominated the market that resulted, of course. But this was a market defined by desktop hardware, where servers sat in the background and the idea of a terminal was mostly verboten. {Before the rise of the PC we had terminals tied largely to IBM mainframes that were far easier to maintain, arguably more secure because they couldn&t run viruses, and far more appliance-like.)

As we move to a cloud-driven present where offerings like Azure define the space, shouldn&t we clean-slate a new client much as we did with DOS, Windows and iOS? Doesn&t it make sense to strive for a result optimized for the cloud world of tomorrow rather than the PC world of yesterday?

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