21st-Century Picks and Shovels: Microsoft’s AI Strategy for Businesses

Mar 4, 2025 | AI, Azure, business, Microsoft, search

In the last article I talked about AI and searching for stuff in big companies. Employees will be able to use AI to get answers drawn from all the different places that information is stored – files, databases, email and calendars, Teams chats, all the rest. The...

Nothing Is Technology. Everything Is Technology.

Mar 6, 2022 | Amazon, Apple, augmented reality, Azure, bruceb, business, Facebook, Google, Internet, Microsoft, virtual reality

I’ve been trying to figure out a role for Bruceb News in 2022. My life has changed – I’m working with Jim Rowson on our latest best-selling novel SMelL and I’m not doing much IT work any more, as planned. But I still devour tech news hungrily, scanning hundreds...

The Three E’s Of Security

May 27, 2021 | Azure, backup, cybersecurity, mail, Microsoft, OneDrive, security, web_services

Educate. Encourage. Enforce. It’s all about security. That’s today’s job for a small business IT consultant. There’s been a consistent curve to technology adoption over the years: enterprises build their businesses around giant-sized technology-based processes, then...

Microsoft Doesn’t Care That Windows Is Declining

Jul 30, 2020 | Apple, Azure, laptops, Lenovo, Microsoft, mobile, Windows10

Microsoft is failing at adapting Windows to modern ARM processors – and it doesn’t care. Microsoft will never acknowledge the decline of Windows, but it has already pivoted the company, so its bottom line will not be affected if consumers and small businesses flee to...

Covid-19 Is Straining The Internet

Mar 30, 2020 | Azure, business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, news, remote, Teams, video, web_services

Across the globe, hundreds of millions of people are using their Internet connection more intensely than they did just a few weeks ago. Usage ramped up so quickly that the infrastructure is being stretched past its limits. I don’t have any tips. You don’t...

Best Practices To Secure Office 365 Global Admin Accounts

Aug 7, 2019 | Azure, business, Microsoft, network, Office 365, security

Business Office 365 accounts have at least one global administrator with godlike power over everyone’s business accounts and mailboxes. In our dangerous world, businesses have to protect that account fiercely. I could make a good argument that online security is more...