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...
Jul 8, 2008 | Microsoft, Office, OneCare, software
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...
Jul 2, 2008 | Microsoft, Vista
[Originally posted June 7, 2007] Many people should buy the Business edition of Windows Vista, even for home computers. Here’s Microsoft’s chart comparing the features of the various versions of Windows Vista, and here’s another one with a few more...
