Jul 1, 2015 | Microsoft, software, updates, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8
Do not – do NOT – upgrade your computer to Windows 10 for at least 30-60 days after it launches. Please tell your employees not to upgrade right away. Tell your friends and relatives. I’m dead serious. Spread the word far and wide. Your computer will not be updated...
Jun 16, 2015 | LastPass, security, software, web_services
If you use LastPass to store your passwords, you probably got an email yesterday reporting that hackers stole some data from the LastPass servers. Here’s the official announcement. There are many things to worry about in this world. This is not one of them. The bad...
Jun 11, 2015 | Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, phone, software, tablet
Microsoft is continuing an aggressive push to ensure that Word, Excel and Powerpoint continue to be the standard business file formats as we move into a new world of mobile devices and files stored online in a variety of services. Recent examples: Dropbox has added...
Jun 3, 2015 | Microsoft, software, Windows Phone 8, Windows8
Alas, poor MSN Travel! We knew it well. That’s not true. If we had paid any attention to it, it would probably still be alive. At some point in the last month, Microsoft gutted MSN Travel, one of the apps created as a showcase for the new program designs in Windows 8...
May 26, 2015 | Microsoft, software, Vista, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8, WinXP
Windows 10 is being tested by millions of people as it enters its final development phase before being released later this summer. Its technical underpinnings are solid and mature. There are genuinely innovative new features. It will be given away for free to more...
May 3, 2015 | mail, Office, Office 365, Office tips, Outlook, software
If you have a large Office 365 mailbox, Outlook 2010 may be slowing down even if your computer is otherwise running at full speed. A new feature in Outlook 2013 – the “sync slider” – might improve performance significantly, and as a nice bonus you would also get...
