BRUCEB NEWS
Prepare To Be Disrupted
The supply chain is all screwed up. It's going to dominate our conversations for the next few months. I know, you have enough crises to worry about, thank you very much, no need for one more. Bad news: what’s unfolding right now in “supply chain disruption” leaves me...
Say Goodbye To Windows Vista
Previously: Say Goodbye To Windows XP (2012) Say Goodbye To Six-Year-Old Computers (2010) Time marches on. It’s time to retire computers running Vista. Most of them are five...
Acrobat XI Pro Now Available By Subscription
Adobe has never been shy about charging high prices for its products. Artists and designers have long struggled with the high cost of licenses for Photoshop, Illustrator,...
New Features In Office 2013 – Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint
Previously: Office 365 Home Premium: The View From 36,000 Feet New Features In Office 2013 – UI, Skydrive, Word Continuing our look at a handful of new features in the updated...
New Features In Office 2013 – UI, Skydrive, Word
Previously: Office 365 Home Premium: The View From 36,000 Feet All the attention is focused on the subscription-based licensing of the new Office suite, but at some point you’re...
Office 365 Home Premium: The View From 36,000 Feet
Microsoft Office 2013 is the new version of Microsoft’s flagship suite, with the core programs that most businesses use every day - Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint. It is...
New Directions For Skype
Skype is being transformed this year into an integrated platform available on phones, tablets and computers for a variety of communications tasks. There has been a flurry of...
Skype Fundamentals
Most of you are familiar with Skype, the program that lets you make free calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world. Microsoft bought Skype at the end of 2011 and has been...
Windows 8 Sales Are Slow–And It’s (Partially) The Manufacturers’ Fault
Windows 8 was introduced at the end of October. Although Microsoft claims to have sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses since then, it’s generally conceded that sales have been...
The Vulnerable, Deceptive World Of Java
Ed Bott has written a fascinating article about Java’s bad behavior – not just its security vulnerabilities, which are legion, but also its incessant attempts to install adware...
Windows Tip: Use The Browser Address Bar For Web Searches
You can type web searches into the address bar of your browser and get the same results as if you had typed them directly into Google. This is an old trick but it’s not well...
Thinkpad X1 Carbon Touch–The Practically Perfect Laptop
Lenovo has begun shipping the Thinkpad X1 Carbon Touch, an updated version of its already awesome Ultrabook, now with a touchscreen that is perfectly suited to Windows 8. It is...
Bruceb Remote Management: Staying Up To Date In A Dangerous World
Your brush with danger from the weekend Java vulnerability ought to help you appreciate the importance of staying up to date on all the programs targeted by malware: Windows,...
Dangerous Java Security Flaw Causes Much Excitement
Hackers discovered a new security flaw in Java and immediately set up poisoned web sites that can compromise your computer if you click on a link. Since no patch is currently...
Office Tip: How To Open Multiple Outlook Windows
You can open Outlook in multiple windows – one window displaying your inbox, for example, one window displaying your calendar, one window displaying your contacts. It can be far...
Smartphone Wars: Google Blocks Windows Phone From Accessing Google Maps
Previously: Clash Of The Titans: The War Of The Ecosystems Google did something evil. It will get undone shortly, but the fact remains that Google directly attacked a group of...