BRUCEB NEWS
China Has Not Hacked Your Office 365 Mailbox
Hackers have infiltrated tens of thousands of servers running Exchange mailboxes. It’s a huge cybersecurity event, rivaling the severity of the Solarwinds Russia hack. Before we get to the details, let’s put some of you at ease. Microsoft’s online Office 365 mailboxes...
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 – DETAILS HAZY, ASK AGAIN LATER
The bloggers were buzzing about Microsoft Office 2010 today, after Microsoft gave a nice presentation at a Partner Conference. The new Office suites won’t be on the market until...
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010: THE MOVIE
I’ll write about the features in Microsoft Office 2010 later. For the moment, take these two clips as evidence that Microsoft might actually be able to do cool advertisements....
CHANGE COMES SLOWLY
One of the things that kept Vista from being adopted quickly was a simple problem: once we are used to doing something a certain way, it’s difficult for many people to change....
BING AND SEARCH RESULTS
Bing is Microsoft’s new service for Internet searches. As I wrote last month, its search results are more or less comparable to Google and it has some nice design touches that...
WINDOWS HOME SERVER FOR BUSINESS
I recently wrote an article praising the use of Windows Home Server as a backup device for small businesses. Shortly after that, Microsoft put up a web page about using Windows...
GOOGLE DROPS THE BOMB
Google announced tonight that it plans to turn its web browser, Google Chrome, into a full-fledged operating system. Its first target is netbooks, which will primarily be used...
WEB HOSTING
At some point on Tuesday, the web host for bruceb.com will change from XO Communications to GoDaddy. In theory it’s going to go smoothly and you won’t notice. If bruceb.com...
SOLID-STATE DRIVES
A few days ago I said that there hadn’t been any profound changes in computer hardware for a while. That’s true, but there’s a change on the horizon that might affect things...
R.I.P. COMPUSERVE
Does your technology memory extend back to the 80s? If so, you may shed a nostalgic tear at the news that the last remnants of CompuServe have been shut down by its current...
MICROSOFT ONLINE SERVICES & PASSWORDS
I’m supporting several businesses using Microsoft Online Services to host their Outlook mailboxes. It’s been very satisfying in almost every way. For a small monthly subscription...
ONECARE SUBSCRIPTION EXTENSIONS
If you have a subscription to Windows Live OneCare, you are covered until the choices for security software are more clear towards the end of 2009. Keep using OneCare. Your...
WINDOWS 7 – UPGRADE POSTSCRIPT
Starting now, you can buy a new computer with Vista and get a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it’s released in late October. Here are the details of Dell’s offer, for example. It...
WINDOWS 7 – UPGRADES
Pretty tempting, eh? For the next ten days or so, you can pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium upgrades for fifty bucks, or Windows 7 Professional for a hundred bucks. It’s a really...
WINDOWS 7 – BACKGROUND
Windows 7 is coming. It’s been almost eight years since Windows XP was released, and we’ve spent more than 2 1/2 years with Vista already. New details are appearing daily about...
BACK TO WORK
Thank you for your patience! I’m back at my desk now. I won’t desert you again, I promise.