Aug 16, 2021 | Amazon, Apple, business, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, news, Politics
They’re too damn big! Admit it, that’s your gut feeling about the five giant tech companies – Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft. It’s a constant refrain in the news, and it’s starting to be an assumption in our conversations. They need to be cut down to...
Aug 5, 2021 | mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Office tips, OneDrive, Outlook, web_services
I haven’t used the desktop versions of Outlook or Word in six months. I did it for you. I’ve been telling you about how swell it is to store your files in OneDrive and use Microsoft’s web apps instead of the desktop versions of Word and Excel and I was pretty sure...
Jul 21, 2021 | Dropbox, Google, Google Drive, Microsoft, OneDrive, web_services
A few days ago Google announced a new/updated Google Drive app for Windows and Mac computers. It allows you to use File Explorer or Mac Finder to view and open files stored online in Google Drive – basically exactly the same thing you can do today with OneDrive,...
Jun 30, 2021 | Android, Cortana, Microsoft, OneNote, Skype, Teams, Windows10, Windows11
Now that you’ve seen the big picture of why Windows 11 exists, let’s go through some of the fascinating details. This could be the most interesting technology article you will read this year. Okay, probably not, but isn’t it better to go into it with an open...
Jun 27, 2021 | Microsoft, updates, Windows10, Windows11
Microsoft will release Windows 11 later this year. It is an incremental upgrade to Windows 10, with a facelift so it looks nice and a few small changes that mostly appear to be for the better. I want to talk about Windows 11 a little bit – first to give you some...
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...
