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 and businesses without a server would use Outlook with their POP3 mail accounts. But in...

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 post. This is rapidly evolving – in an ideal world, these will be...

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 been made available to anyone with a Windows Live ID. You can get started at...

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. (The iPhone does better with its ability to zoom in and out on a page but it’s...

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 OneCare, and some Windows Live programs and services (Office Live Workspace for online...