Nov 6, 2016 | Microsoft, Office, Office 365, software
Microsoft Access, an Office program for database management, will be included with the other Office programs in the Office 365 Business and Business Premium plans, starting next month. This is irrelevant for many businesses that have no reason to use Access. For the...
Oct 26, 2016 | computers, Dell, HP, laptops, Lenovo, Microsoft, shopping, tablet
The new HP Spectre X360 joins the small group of the best business laptops. A business-quality laptop costs $1,000-$1,200. The best laptops in that price range are not gold-plated; they’re not over-powered; they don’t have unnecessary extra features. Instead, they’re...
Oct 23, 2016 | Azure, business, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, web_services
Overwhelm (verb) Defeat completely; give too much of a thing to someone; inundate Microsoft’s roadmap for business apps and services is overwhelming. Good news! It’s also not for you, my loyal small business readers. I’m going to list a staggering number of...
Oct 2, 2016 | downtime, Microsoft, updates, Windows10
Microsoft just keeps on making friends with its updates. Anniversary Update is a major refresh of Windows 10 with new features, changes and improvements throughout the entire OS, and lots of bug fixes. All the details are here. The new features are just the teensiest...
Sep 25, 2016 | computers, Dell, hardware, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, shopping
The gently curved triangular cylinder in the above picture looks like a particularly attractive speaker. Wrapped in thick-threaded fabric, a lid that looks like it’s made for distributing sound evenly – obviously it must be a subwoofer or all-in-one speaker. And in a...
Sep 21, 2016 | Apple, Google, Microsoft, phone, Politics, security
It’s not your imagination: robocalls are on the increase. The volume of robocalls has risen sharply in 2016. Complaints are up. The government and big companies are taking new steps to try to rein in the scammers and perhaps tame the “legitimate” telemarketers. It may...
