BRUCEB NEWS
Your Credit Card Was Not Used To Buy An Inflatable Motorcycle
Someday soon your email will have a receipt for something you didn’t buy. It will be matter of fact and bland but you’re pretty sure your wife would have mentioned it if she had bought, say, a pair of Luis Vuitton sneakers, so the email receipt stands out. You’re...
WINDOWS HOME SERVER POWER PACK 1
Microsoft has released Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server, fixing a rare but embarrassing data corruption bug, adding new features, and improving stability. Reports of...
SONY DELIVERS CRAPWARE-FREE PC
From a column today by Ed Bott:"Sony is finally taking on its crapware problem. For the past two months, I've been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and...
OUTLOOK vs. GMAIL
Microsoft Exchange and Outlook dominate the market for corporate email. Small businesses running Exchange Server use Outlook almost exclusively. Until recently, even individuals...
SKYDRIVE/FOLDERSHARE/LIVE MESH
For those of you following along at home, here's a comparison of Microsoft's overlapping services for sharing and syncing files and storing files online, taken from this forum...
SBS & DIY
Small Business Server is aimed at businesses with 5-25 computers. (Its license allows it to be used for up to 75 computers but it's time to look at moving to the next step when...
SMALL BUSINESS SERVER 2008 IS COMING
Small Business Server 2008, the successor to SBS 2003, will ship on November 12. The first few months will reveal any lingering issues and clarify the procedure for migrating to...
LIVE MESH OPEN FOR TESTING
Microsoft is developing a platform capable of lots of interesting tricks. I wrote about Live Mesh a few months ago; now an updated version is ready for testing and it's quietly...
WINDOWS MOBILE & LIVE SEARCH
Few people browse Internet pages on a mobile device with a three inch screen. A few sites have pages that are optimized for a mobile device but they're pretty hard to come by....
DELL & YOUR TECH TEAM
I still buy most computers from Dell - it's not perfect, but in my experience it's still a step ahead of the other manufacturers in quality and support. It's easy to get Vista...
ONECARE UPDATE – DON’T PANIC!
If you are using Windows Live OneCare, it will be automatically upgraded to version 2.5 in the next few days. You don't need to do anything. The new version does not change...
iPHONE 2.0
The new iPhone will be available next week, including support for Microsoft Exchange and Windows Mobile/ActiveSync. That means businesspeople in companies run by Small Business...
WINDOWS VISTA SMALL BUSINESS ASSURANCE
Small businesses (less than 50 employees) can get free telephone support from Microsoft for any Vista-related issues on new PCs running Vista Business or Vista Ultimate purchased...
MANUAL INSTALLATION OF VISTA SP1
Vista Service Pack 1 was delayed briefly when it was discovered that a handful of hardware device drivers occasionally kept the service pack installation from finishing...
MICROSOFT EQUIPT
On July 15, Microsoft will begin selling a product that many of you should consider for your next computer. Microsoft Equipt includes Office 2007 Home and Student, Windows Live...
ACROBAT READER 9
Adobe has released Acrobat Reader 9, the new version of its PDF reader; the full version of Acrobat 9 will follow shortly. We'll be pressured to install the new version by...