Jul 23, 2008 | business, mail, Microsoft, mobile, Outlook, SBS, web_services
Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced new services that might drastically change the email technology used by small businesses. Let me give you some background, then give you some information about Microsoft Online Services – a way for a small business to have its...
Jul 21, 2008 | Google, mail, Microsoft, Outlook, software, web_services
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...
Jul 20, 2008 | file_sharing, Microsoft, web_services
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...
Jul 17, 2008 | business, computers, hardware, Microsoft, SBS, security
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 the new platform from SBS 2003. In early 2009, I’ll be talking about it to my...
Jul 16, 2008 | file_sharing, Microsoft, remote, web_services
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...
Jul 15, 2008 | Internet, Microsoft, mobile, 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...
