Oct 3, 2011 | business, domains, Microsoft, network, Office 365, SBS
Small businesses are finally in a position to set up Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, the perfect server for many small businesses with fewer than 25 users. Today’s technology world does not offer any one-size-fits-all solutions but SBS 2011 Essentials...
Sep 29, 2011 | Amazon, Android, Apple, iPad, Microsoft, tablet
Here are representative screen shots of what tablets present and future look like side by side. Apple iPad 2 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (standing in for all the Android tablets) Amazon Kindle Fire Microsoft Windows 8 (a preview look at Microsoft’s tablet interface)...
Sep 21, 2011 | Facebook, Google, Google+, Microsoft, web_services, Windows8
Are you a Facebook user? You probably noticed the significant makeover to your Facebook page on Wednesday. Your news feed is now formatted a bit like a newspaper or online magazine, with “top stories,” a “ticker” feature on the right, “smart lists” on the left, and...
Aug 23, 2011 | Microsoft, Office 365, Outlook, web_services, Windows7
Microsoft Press has two quite useful books for you to download, absolutely free. The books are in PDF format, fully searchable and easy to read onscreen. (Don’t print them. It misses the point.) The Windows 7 Power Users Guide by Mike Halsey is packed with...
Aug 19, 2011 | Amazon, Google, mail, Microsoft, Office 365, web_services
On August 10, the main data center for Exchange Defender suffered a catastrophic power failure. Clients using the spam filtering service had their incoming and outgoing mail interrupted or massively slowed for most of a day, and hosted mailboxes went offline for as...
Aug 17, 2011 | computers, Dell, hardware, Home_Server, Microsoft, Office 365, SBS, shopping
In April, with little fanfare, Microsoft released three new server products to manufacturing and to the hardware vendors: Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Windows Home Server 2011, and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. Small Business Server 2011...
