Jun 30, 2011 | business, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, web_services
Microsoft Office 365 is now available for small businesses. It is the most visible part of Microsoft’s efforts to migrate from shrink-wrapped software to services delivered online – “cloud” computing, in the current catchphrase. There is something of interest in...
Jun 27, 2011 | Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, web_services
Tomorrow morning at 7am PDT, Steve Ballmer will host a webcast announcing the general availability of Office 365, Microsoft’s next generation of online services. This is a huge undertaking by Microsoft to convince small and medium businesses to move their mail,...
Jun 26, 2011 | Apple, iPad, phone, photos, web_services
The new service announced by Apple for syncing photos among different devices is one of the most interesting parts of the iCloud package, both for what it does and for what it leaves out. The idea is simple: each photo you take with your iPhone or iPad will...
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 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...
