Jun 22, 2011 | mail, Microsoft, Outlook, web_services
Microsoft’s hosted Exchange mail service went down again this morning. Apparently service is now restored and most people are able to get back online, as of about 10:45am. I haven’t lost faith in this service – it has too many advantages for that. But there have been...
Jun 17, 2011 | Amazon, Android, audio, business, Dropbox, iPad, mail, Microsoft, Office, Outlook, photos, web_services
Apple’s announcement of a collection of services sharing the name “iCloud” has generated endless articles about what it all means. I’ll talk about some of the details in the next few days but let’s step back and look at the bigger picture, because it encapsulates so...
Jun 10, 2011 | Microsoft, Office, Outlook, software
If you have a new computer with Microsoft Office 2010, you should spend a few minutes figuring out Microsoft OneNote 2010, one of the great programs of our time. I’ve written about it before – there’s an introduction to it here, and some information about sharing...
Jun 6, 2011 | Amazon, Android, Apple, Dropbox, file_sharing, Google, iPad, mail, Microsoft, mobile, Outlook, phone, photos, software, tablet, web_services
Not everything works with everything else. Your expectations have changed so quickly that you might not have noticed. It wasn’t long ago that most people used a single PC at a single location and were content to leave the data on that computer behind when they left...
May 24, 2011 | Apple, Microsoft, security
For years, Windows users have felt persecuted by malware authors. Why weren’t Macs getting hit with viruses and poisoned web sites? The standard wisdom was that Macs didn’t have a big enough market share to hold the interest of the bad guys. To be honest, PC users...
May 23, 2011 | Microsoft, security, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
Previously: Say Goodbye To Six Year Old Computers Windows XP computers are falling over left and right. Many of them are simply insufferably slow for all the reasons I wrote about last fall. Windows XP is a much heavier, slower OS than when it was first released, and...
