Nov 15, 2010 | business, domains, Home_Server, Microsoft, Office, SBS
Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has laid out the technology that will power small offices for the foreseeable future. When these are on the market (likely within the next 3-6 months), the landscape for small businesses will be completely different than anything you...
Oct 24, 2010 | business, software, Windows7
Here’s an unexpected surprise for small law offices running Timeslips. Sage Software has learned the revenue-generating lesson taught by Intuit (Quickbooks), Lexis/Nexis (Time Matters), and many others: there’s money to be made in forcing people to buy upgrades,...
Oct 21, 2010 | broadband, business, hardware, Internet, network
Previously: First Rumbling Of The Coming IPv6 Transition In the early 90s, a bunch of smart people in a position of authority got together and put together a replacement for IPv4 named IPv6, after many committee meetings and a few false starts. Since the immediate...
Oct 11, 2010 | business, hardware, HP, printers, software, spam
Previously: Annoying Checkboxes (Microsoft Office) Ban The Check (Java, iTunes) This week’s installment of Annoying Checkboxes comes to us courtesy of HP, always a reliable source of installation routines that take too long and bloat your system with too much crud....
Sep 22, 2010 | business, Microsoft, OneCare, security, software
Microsoft Security Essentials is simply the best security program currently available for Windows computers. Installing MSE is on the short list of chores that I insist on doing for every computer I work on. The license terms are being changed to permit it to be used...
Sep 3, 2010 | business, Microsoft, Office, software
This week’s installment of Annoying Checkboxes is sponsored by Microsoft, which has already brought you the annoying checkbox to install the “Bing Toolbar” – the one that has to be unchecked every single time you install an update to Java. Since Java is updated...
