Oct 23, 2016 | Azure, business, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, web_services
Overwhelm (verb) Defeat completely; give too much of a thing to someone; inundate Microsoft’s roadmap for business apps and services is overwhelming. Good news! It’s also not for you, my loyal small business readers. I’m going to list a staggering number of...
Oct 2, 2016 | downtime, Microsoft, updates, Windows10
Microsoft just keeps on making friends with its updates. Anniversary Update is a major refresh of Windows 10 with new features, changes and improvements throughout the entire OS, and lots of bug fixes. All the details are here. The new features are just the teensiest...
Sep 25, 2016 | computers, Dell, hardware, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, shopping
The gently curved triangular cylinder in the above picture looks like a particularly attractive speaker. Wrapped in thick-threaded fabric, a lid that looks like it’s made for distributing sound evenly – obviously it must be a subwoofer or all-in-one speaker. And in a...
Sep 21, 2016 | Apple, Google, Microsoft, phone, Politics, security
It’s not your imagination: robocalls are on the increase. The volume of robocalls has risen sharply in 2016. Complaints are up. The government and big companies are taking new steps to try to rein in the scammers and perhaps tame the “legitimate” telemarketers. It may...
Sep 18, 2016 | Azure, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, web_services, Windows10
Background: Understanding Microsoft Work And Personal Accounts Tip: How To Change The Login For Your Microsoft Account (And Why You Should) Last week Microsoft candidly acknowledged that it has created a confusing and frustrating tangle with its two identity systems...
Sep 11, 2016 | Android, Chrome, Google, IE, Microsoft, WinXP
As we move quickly into a post-Microsoft world, Google Chrome is the program where we spend most of our time on our computers. Last week Chrome was updated in a couple of small but significant ways, with a cleaner look based on Google’s “material design” aesthetic,...
